Inside this comprehensive guide from Walter Foster, five artists provide instruction for using soft, hard, and oil pastel. Each artist shares his or her unique approach to the medium.

Pastels can be used to achieve a wide range of effects. This book covers topics like blending and pastel textures, in addition to materials and usage. Exercises include step-by-step instructions.

This book was written to help oil and pastel painters learn new ways of seeing and painting light and color.

These interactive art instruction books are designed to help aspiring artists create quality work within just days. Each presents a series of eight step-by-step projects designed to teach you the most rewarding techniques of the medium as you gradually build both knowledge and confidence.

Renowned sports artist Jim Scullion shares his expertise in this practical and inspiring guide to drawing and painting sports figures — the only book that focuses exclusively on this exciting area of figure drawing.

Experienced pastel painter Carol Hodgson shows how to use her innovative and inspiring techniques to create beautiful paintings with soft pastels. Readers learn how to paint sunflowers, a Tuscan landscape, and a Venetian scene full of light and color.

This comprehensive book offers instruction on creating vibrant paintings with the often overlooked but versatile medium, oil pastel. Artist-author Nathan Rohlander shows how to render a wide range of subjects with simple, step-by-step demonstrations.

For both beginners and more experienced artists, this is a guide to the full scope of pastel use with particular emphasis on capturing light, color, and texture. Step-by-step instructions cover a wide range of subject matter. Paperback. 160 pages.

Whether or not you work outdoors, understanding the effects of light and shadow is an essential part of making your art lifelike and engaging. Master pastelist Maggie Price shares her techniques for "painting" beautiful light, rich shadows in 10 step-by-step demonstrations. Paperback. 128 pages.

Jenny Keal shares her passion for soft pastels in this inspiring and practical guide that takes readers through the basics of painting. In Painting with Pastels, five beautiful step-by-by step demonstrations show how to paint landscapes and flower studies. Paperback. 96 pages.

This step-by-step guide offers readers everything they need to know to paint with pastels, beginning with how to select the right materials, to the fundamentals of composition, and working with photographs.

The Pastel Artist's Handbook is a practical and comprehensive guide to soft pastels and oil pastels, including techniques for drawing, shading, color mixing, and mixed media for beginners to advanced artists. Hardcover spiral. 224 pages.

Create paintings of greater power by combining pastels with watercolors or acrylic texture mediums. This encyclopedic review of pastels and techniques has a multitude of unusual ideas. Author - Bill Creevy. Paperback book. 176 pages.

Techniques covered in the book include blending with a torchon, working dark to light, lifting off, and creating highlights and shadows, all applied to subjects from still lifes to landscapes, and from buildings to woodlands.