Pastel Essentials: Pastel Painting Instruction for Still Lifes, Portraits and Landscapes eBook

Discover all the Pastel Essentials in this instant download eBook from American Artist!

With this exciting new eBook, you’ll get 30+ pages of pastel instruction instantly on your computer! Dive into this collection of favorite articles and discover more approaches and artist insight from top instructors on still lifes, portraits, and landscapes.

Get a handle on this challenging medium with advice from an oil painter turned pastel instructor. Learn to use specialized pastel materials from surfaces to consistencies to colors—it’s all here!

Plus all this, just a couple of clicks away:

• Create pieces that are both powerfully dramatic and quietly sensitive with pastel painting tips from master artist Patricia Tribastone.
• Render your subjects with a new radiance—discover instruction from top artist and instructor Dennis Wojtkiewicz on achieving luminosity in fruit.
• Learn step by step with 2 art demos including a melon still life with all the techniques you’ll need for beginning setup to the final details.
• Use the whole range of any given color with instruction from renowned pastel artists on achieving variations in hue, value, and temperature as well as discords.
• Capture the expressiveness of a person and establish your subject’s likeness, personality, and vitality with 6 steps to painting the mouth.
• Enhance interest in every piece—infuse your landscapes with abstract beauty by painting visual ideas instead of things.
• Discover a disciplined approach to pastel—save time and pare down your supplies for an efficient and effective working method.
• And more!

Give yourself a foundation in pastel techniques with this essential eBook download. Get easy access to art demos, must-have techniques, exclusive advice from contemporary artists, and much more!

Learn time-tested techniques and expand your skill set with instant access to must-know information for creating successful pastel paintings.