A Step-by-Step Guide for Absolute Beginners
Full of easy-to-follow exercises and demonstrations, this guide will give even the most hesitant of beginners the enthusiasm and confidence to start painting in pastel. All the instruction is broken down into easy step-by-step exercises to help you to practise and build up your knowledge and expertise of painting gradually. For example, you learn how to paint a tree in three easy stages, then a cloudy sky, and finally a simple foreground, so that in the end you can paint a complete landscape in pastel.
The simple exercises explain exactly how to paint all the separate features of a picture, one by one. By the end of the book, you'll be able to produce a painting to be proud of.