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How to Paint Portraits in Pastel

Arts & Photography

Singer,Joe

Drawing

Watson-Guptill Pubns

Painting Women's Portraits

Watson-Guptill Publications

This book offers solutions to problems that arise when painting men's portraits. Chapters include "Visualizing the Portrait," "Posing and Composing, etc." It also includes a "Color Gallery and Demonstration Paintings by six different male artists.

Painting Men's Portraits

Watson/Guptill

Areas covered: Materials and equipment; preliminary sketches; clothing and props; format; lighting; learning to mix colors; painting procedure; learning about values; color demonstrations; and handling the brush.

Painting Children in Oil

Blahove, Maros

Painting

Dust jacket notes: "Charles Pfahl is one of the most brilliant traditional painters on the New York scene. This richly illustrated book is a closeup view of his working methods and his spectacular command of oil painting techniques. Charles Pfahl: Artist at Work opens with a detailed description of Pfahl's working methods: where he gets his ideas and how he develops them into paintings; posing the model and planning and composing the picture; lighting - both indoor and outdoor; his palette and how he plans the colors for his paintings; preliminary drawings and color sketches; and finally, a description of how he paints a typical picture in oil. The second part is a series of step-by-step photographic demonstrations of paintings in progress, with detailed technical captions showing how each step is painted. The demonstrations include a clothed female figure, a female nude, a male nude, a figure in an interior, and finally, an interior painted as a king of 'still life.' The demonstrations are especially instructive because many closeups show significant areas of the paintings at various stages, revealing the texture of the paint and the subtle brushwork. The final section is a one-man show of finished paintings, reproduced full-page size, with technical captions on how each painting was executed. The paintings in the one-man show include nude and clothed figures, figures in interior settings, plus portraits and self-portraits, and finally a few still lifes - all remarkable for their technical mastery. Charles Pfahl: Artist at Work is a valuable book for everyone who paints - and for everyone who wants to see how a top professional artist works." 144 pages. 9 x 12 inches, 80 color plates, 28 black-and-white illustrations, index.

Charles Pfahl, Artist at Work

Inspiring illustrations show how to draw all kinds of wild and domestic animals. Contents: â€ 1. Elephants â€ 2. Bears â€ 3. Horses â€ 4. Cattle â€ 5. Deer â€ 6. Sheep â€ 7. Primates â€ 8. Cats â€ 9. Dogs â€ 10. Small Animals

Drawing Animals

History & Criticism

Inspiring illustrations show how to draw all kinds of wild and domestic animals. Contents: • 1. Elephants • 2. Bears • 3. Horses • 4. Cattle • 5. Deer • 6. Sheep • 7. Primates • 8. Cats • 9. Dogs • 10. Small Animals

Drawing Animals: 30th Anniversary Edition

Adams, Norman

Pastel is a natural medium for painting the figure. It offers a delicacy of tone, color, and shading that is perfectly suited to painting the subtle nuances and glowing highlights of flesh tones and hair, and the clarity of its colors gives clothing, backgrounds, and accessories a rich, vibrant quality. In this companion volume to How to Paint Portraits in Pastel, the author gives the reader everything he or she needs to know to paint both the nude and the clothed figure in pastel. Step-by-step demonstrations by noted contemporary painters -Ramon Kelley, Marcos Blahove, Harvey Dinnerstein, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Burt Silverman, and John Foote-as well as illustrations throughout the book by other well-known artists accompany the clear, easy-to-follow text. Singer first introduces the preliminaries of pastel painting: soft pastels, hard pastels, semihard pastels, pastel pencils, and pastel in combination with other media. He reviews the various surfaces suitable for pastel and the methods for preparing these surfaces, and then describes the process of selecting pastels and laying out a palette of colors. He discusses how to plan the painting, the lighting, the background, and the various ways to pose the model. Following this, the author shows how to paint the skin and hair tones of the nude figure and the folds and patterns of the clothing on a clothed figure. He also explains how to paint the figure indoors and outdoors. The three major pastel techniques-pointillism, rubbing-in, and the painterly method- are examined in detail, and the author gives sound advice to the artist who wants to experiment in each technique. To conclude, the author offers suggestions for matting, framing, storing, and transporting the finished pastel painting. 168 pages. 81A x 11. 70 black and white illustrations. 36 full color plates. Bibliography. Index.

How to Paint Figures in Pastel

Discusses the technical and artistic aspects of painting portraits in pastels and provides reproductions of works by masters

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How to Paint Portraits in Pastel

Painting Women's Portraits

Painting Men's Portraits

Painting Children in Oil

Charles Pfahl, Artist at Work

Drawing Animals

Drawing Animals: 30th Anniversary Edition

How to Paint Figures in Pastel

How to Paint Figures in Pastel

How to Paint Portraits in Pastel