60 Techniques and Exercises for Painting with Pastels It's a pastel revolution! Popular instructor Dawn Emerson teaches how to use innovative and unique pastel painting techniques including printmaking and other underpainting techniques used by Degas in a way that makes them accessible to all artists. You will learn how to create pastel paintings using fun and different techniques. You will feel inspired as you learn new approaches to using pastel to build up layers and reveal layers incorporating monotypes as underpaintings. You will learn methods for creating texture that cannot be duplicated by drawing or painting, providing new ways to vary edges, explore line, use layers and colour and use storytelling. You will follow along with fun and creative exercises as you expand your vocabulary using methods of design and creativity to create beautiful paintings. Every step-by-step lesson has been designed and tested for effectiveness in the author's popular workshops. And each lesson will address specific elements of design, give a time allotment, provide group discussion topics and a list of questions in order to evaluate results.
