Random House New Releases - Art - Pastel

Pastel Painting Atelier by Ellen Eagle

2013-04-23T00:30:00-05:00

Pastel Painting Atelier Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and Materials
Written by Ellen Eagle

Hardcover, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Pastel; Art - Painting | $35.00 | 978-0-8230-0841-4 (0-8230-0841-X)

Revel in the luminous and vibrant qualities of pastel with Ellen Eagle’s essential course in the history, techniques, and practices of the medium. In this comprehensive yet intimate guide, Eagle explores pastel’s rich but relatively unexamined past, reveals her own personal influences and approaches, and guides you toward the discovery and mastery of your own vision. In Pastel Painting Atelier, you will find:

   • Advice on basic materials: guidance on building, storing, and organizing a collection of pastels; choosing the right paper; and the importance of experimentation
   • Studio practice suggestions: ideas for creating your ideal working environment and recipes for making your own pastels and supports
   • Study of the working process: lessons on proportion, gesture, composition, color, application, identifying and correcting problems, and recognizing when a work is finished
   • Meditation on subject: cues for extrapolating the subtle details, presence, and temporal features of whatever you choose to paint
   • Step-by-step demonstrations: Eagle’s acute insights into her own works as they progress

A magnificent selection of works by masters such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Rosalba Carriera, Mary Cassatt, and Eugene Delacroix augment this guide, as do works by contemporary artists including Harvey Dinnerstein, Elizabeth Mowry, and Daniel Massad. Aimed at serious artists, this guide enlightens, instructs, and inspires readers to create brilliant and sensitive works in the historic medium of pastel.

Pastel Painting Atelier by Ellen Eagle

2013-04-23T00:30:00-05:00

Pastel Painting Atelier Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and Materials
Written by Ellen Eagle

eBook, 192 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Pastel; Art - Painting | $18.99 | 978-0-8230-0842-1 (0-8230-0842-8)

Painting the Landscape in Pastel by Anita Louise West

2000-11-01T00:30:00-05:00

Painting the Landscape in Pastel
Written by Albert Handell and Anita Louise West

Trade Paperback, 128 pages | Watson-Guptill | Art - Painting; Art - Pastel | $24.95 | 978-0-8230-3912-8 (0-8230-3912-9)

Known for his use of luminous color, Albert Handell, whose lush landscapes light up these pages, provides lucid instructions to help first-time pastelists achieve impressive results as soon as they begin working with the medium.

After reviewing pastel supplies, the author discusses landscape composition and how to establish large shapes first, abstract certain areas, develop a focal point, work from dark to light, and capture the illusion of reality through color. Stepped demonstrations isolate specific landscape aspects, showing how the pastelist depicts skies, trees, buildings, water, rocks, woods, snow, and light.

Random House New Releases - Art - Pastel

Pastel Painting Atelier by Ellen Eagle

Pastel Painting Atelier Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and MaterialsWritten by Ellen Eagle

Pastel Painting Atelier by Ellen Eagle

Pastel Painting Atelier Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and MaterialsWritten by Ellen Eagle

Painting the Landscape in Pastel by Anita Louise West

Painting the Landscape in Pastel Written by Albert Handell and Anita Louise West

Pastel Painting Atelier Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and Materials
Written by Ellen Eagle

Pastel Painting Atelier Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and Materials
Written by Ellen Eagle

Painting the Landscape in Pastel
Written by Albert Handell and Anita Louise West