Discover the unique joys of pastel painting with this easy-to-use guide. More than 100 visual sequences reveal key techniques such as mixing, blending, scumbling, sgraffito, hatching, and feathering.
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| Introduction | |
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| Materials | |
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| Types of pastel | |
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| Looking after your pastels | |
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| Paper textures | |
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| Paper colors | |
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| Other equipment | |
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| Color | |
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| Color principles | |
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| Basic palette | |
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| Color mixes | |
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| Using greens | |
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| Using browns and grays | |
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| Mixing skin tones | |
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| Using skin tones | |
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| Basic Techniques | |
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| Working practice | |
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| Side strokes | |
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| Linear strokes | |
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| Tutorial: Using basic strokes | |
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| Gestural drawing | |
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| Blending | |
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| Surface mixing | |
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| Broken color | |
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| Hatching and crosshatching | |
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| Feathering | |
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| Scumbling | |
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| Coloring the ground | |
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| Texturing the ground | |
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| Preparatory drawings | |
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| Building up | |
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| Tutorial: Building a painting | |
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| Highlights and shadows | |
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| Tutorial: Color accents | |
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| Erasing | |
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| Fixing | |
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| Further Techniques | |
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| Masking | |
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| Wet brushing | |
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| Impasto | |
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| Sgraffito | |
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| Underpainting | |
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| Charcoal and pastel | |
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| Colored pencil and pastel | |
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| Watercolor and pastel | |
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| Gouache and pastel | |
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| Acrylic paint and pastel | |
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| Oil paint and pastel | |
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| Resist techniques | |
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| Subjects | |
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| Landscape | |
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| Composing a landcape | |
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| Light and landscape | |
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| Atmostphere and landscape | |
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| Tutorial: Atmospheric landscape | |
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| Skies | |
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| Water | |
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| Trees | |
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| Flowers and foliage | |
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| Urban Subjects | |
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| Buildings | |
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| Depicting details | |
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| Urban settings | |
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| Tutorial: Urban landscape | |
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| Still Life | |
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| Found groups | |
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| Fruit | |
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| Tutorial: Painting fruit | |
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| Flowers | |
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| Floral still-life groups | |
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| People | |
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| Portraits | |
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| Tutorial: Painting a portrait | |
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| Figures in action | |
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| Figures in context | |
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| Tutorial: Painting figures in a setting | |
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| Figure groups | |
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| Animals | |
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| Animal studies | |
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| Tutorial: Animals in action | |
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| Index | |
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| Credits | |
