Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1391843 in Books
• Published on: 1990-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

unique portrait techniques with oil pastel
Covers the basics for the beginner in oil pastels. This is a straightforward and concise guide with a decent number of demonstration paintings, but not a lot of text. There are several easy exercises for those new to this medium to help gain confidence, get a feel for working up drawings and see the results of applying different techniques. If you look beyond the simplicity of the content, you will find there are some interesting techniques applied here, from blending to give the image a painterly look, to dry-brush-style sketching for a look more like drawing or illustration. I purchased this book to try some new techniques for illustrating children's books, and I found it interesting and unique. The portrait and animal drawing techniques are very workable and easy to implement and the demo images convey a soft but not-too-contrived feeling that is often typical with this medium.

Not worth 1 cent
This is a worthless book, don't waste your money.
He doesn't tell you any more than you could learn from an oil painting book. He does show you that if you blend you can't see the white of the paper, and if you don't you will be able to see white dots. He uses turps to blend. That's the gist of the whole 28 pages which contains barely enough text to fill up two pages.