You Can Paint Pastels [Paperback]

The second title in a brand-new series of painting books, written by professional artist-teachers, for absolute beginners. These books will start with real basics and assume no knowledge or experience of painting whatsoever.

Full of easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, the Collins You Can Paint series will give even the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to start painting in pastel.

All the instruction is broken down into really easy step-by-step exercises to help you to practise and build up your knowledge and expertise of painting gradually. For example, you learn how to paint a tree in three easy stages, then a cloudy sky and finally how to paint a simple foreground, so that in
the end you can paint a complete landscape in pastel.

In this book Marie Blake takes the reader by the hand with simple exercises and explains exactly how to paint all the separate features of a picture one-by-one. So, by the end of the book you feel that you really can produce a pastel painting to be proud of.

'The second title in a brand new series of painting books, written by professional artist teachers, for 'absolute' beginners. These books will start with real basics and assume no knowledge or experience of painting whatsoever.'

Full of easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, the 'Collins You Can Paint' series will give you the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to start painting in pastel.

All the instruction is broken down into really easy step-by-step exercises to help you practise and build up your knowledge and expertise of painting gradually. For example, you learn how to paint a tree in three easy stages, then a cloudy sky and finally how to paint a simple foreground, so that in the end you can paint a complete landscape in pastel.

In this book Marie Blake takes the reader by the hand with simple exercises and explains exactly how to paint all the separate features of a picture one-by-one. So by the end of the book you feel that you really can produce a pastel painting to be proud of.

Marie Blake trained as a painter at Kingston upon Thames School of Art and later qualified as a teacher of art at Central College, London University. She has taught at primary and secondary level and also has experience of teaching part-time and leisure painters. She exhibits her own paintings and is a regular contributor to Leisure Painter magazine.