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Designed for the serious beginner, this volume offers step-by-step advice on painting in oil pastels. Lessons progress simply from easy subjects and techniques to the more difficult and complex. First, artists learn how to use oil pastels to create traditional paintings in still landscape and portraiture. Then the author explores 12 specific experimental techniques, including impasto, washes and monoprint; stencil and screen techniques; and methods for combining pastel with soft pastel and mixed media.
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John Elliot wrote the first-ever article on how to use oil pastels for American Artist magazine in 1983. He has work in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, the Smithsonian/National Collection of Fine Arts, and the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts His commissions include works for Ronald Reagan and Katharine Hepburn. He lives in Upper Nyack, New York.
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The generic definition of pastel is a stick of ground mixed with just enough binder to keep its shape. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This is the only book for oil pastels alone available,
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This review is from: Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter (Paperback)
This American book is the only book solely for oil pastels available at the moment.
I am satisfied with this book but will detail the negatives first then the positives. From my point of view there are just 2 disadvantages to this book. The First disadvantage is that the artist is just too good! Some of the examples he draws with oil pastels are too hard and dazzling for an amateur hobbyist like myself to have a go at. But even with my limited ability I still found many examples that I could try and got a very satisfactory drawing of a sunset done as a result. The 2nd disadvantage is that he describes all the many techniques that exist for using oil pastels, except one! He missed out the technique that uses sectioning and then underpainting of a lighter shade of colour as described at the "fantasy art" "FARP" website. That technique was the main reason I had for buying this. Yet I was not disappointed overall. Overall I do not regret buying this book. It is easy to follow, has beautiful illustrations and I hope that more books on oil pastels alone are published in the future.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The only oil pastel book around!,
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This review is from: Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter (Paperback)
I am so pleased to have found a book solely about oil pastels. This is a very informative, beautifully illustrated book. The techniques described within have been a great help.
The quality of the art presented on these pages, I will admit, seemed a bit daunting and posibly beyond my abilities; but then it is aimed at 'the Serious Beginner'. I am still glad to have a book with instructions to allow me to further enjoy this wonderful medium!
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A TRUEbook on Oil Pastels... at last!,
By Lin Goodwin (Warwickshire, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter (Paperback)
At last someone has produced a book on oil pastels true to it's title!!!!
Just like the author I find the soft traditional pastels, messy, dusty and untidy to work with. I don't like them, but that's what is offered on nearly all books on 'pastels'! I purely enjoy working in oil pastels, although as a beginner to this medium I have experienced incredible difficulty in getting any guidance. All the books on 'Pastels' either completely ignore oil pastels altogether or only include them as a mixed media option or to use with watercolours. I don't want to have to buy watercolours to paint with oil pastels! I was so pleased to finally find a book that taught me the techniques I needed to learn. I made many discoveries with this book, including the diversity of supports usable for oil pastels as well as some interesting techniques. The artist is amazing and his true love of this media is obvious. Like the previous reviewer said he is 'too good'. I am in awe of some of his work so much so that I feel I can never reach that standard. But he certainly gives me incentive to try! One drawback is that it is American. The suppliers contacts, availability of propriety items mentioned is not relevent to the UK. I also found some of the terminology confusing as Americans have different names for some things. I thought though that this was a small sacrifice to finally finding a totally dedicated book specific to oil pastels written by one who so clearly loves the medium! If you can't use 'normal' soft pastels for health or economy reasons (you have to buy so many to get the tonal range)and wish to take up Oil pastels this book is an absolute must.
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