Tags: #pastel, art techniques

Author: Carol Katchen
Title: Creative Pastel Painting: 20 outstanding artists show you how to master the colorful versatility of pastels
Year: 1990
Format: PDF
Pages: 139
Language: English
Size: 17.3 MB
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Looking through this book, you can see the huge variety of styles and techniques available to pastelists. The author has introduced 20 different artists here. Each has a unique vision, and each has been able to develop that vision in pastel. Thus, the materials themselves offer a huge range of choices. From the precision of pastel pencils to the lush expressiveness of soft handmade sticks, the very form of the pigment can guide your creativity. The application of pigment affects both the mood and the image, and the range can be very broad – from staccato strokes to the subtle elegance of smoothly blended layers of color.

All the components of any painting – color, value, composition – can be fully treated with pastels and often in new, fantasy ways. Perhaps most importantly, pastel is a very soft tool. It allows you to experiment freely, knowing that mistakes can be covered up or changed.
If you’ve never worked with pastels, give it a try; it may be the perfect medium to express your own vision. If pastel is already your favorite medium, experiment, be adventurous, be outrageous. The only limits to pastels are the limits of your own creativity.