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Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter (Serious Beginner)

Oil Pastel for the Serious Beginner: Basic Lessons in Becoming a Good Painter (Serious Beginner)

by JohnElliot (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $21.36
Synopsis

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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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.
Published: 31 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 0823033112
ISBN 13: 9780823033119

Author Bio
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.