Pastel Innovations

Learn pastel painting techniques that are revolutionary, fun, and easy!

Designed for beginners considering using pastel for the first time, for experienced artists who may feel uninspired, and for anyone in between, the skills you'll gain with Pastel Innovations will help you build confidence and open your artistic world.

Explore the unique joys of pastel painting with:

• An exploration of the basics — expand your artist's vocabulary learning to use the elements and fundamentals of design to create beautiful, balanced paintings.
• 20 simple exercises that build off each other and help you grow as an artist, little by little, building confidence.
• More than 40 innovative pastel painting techniques — feel inspired as you learn new approaches to using pastel to build up and reveal layers, incorporate monotypes as underpaintings, create texture that cannot be duplicated by drawing or painting, and more.
• Thoughtful self-critique — questions, approaches, and checklists that will result in better art, while at the same time making you a better artist.

Leave your expectations behind and engage in the process of pastel painting with a newfound freedom to play and explore.

Author — Dawn Emerson.

Hardcover. 160 pages. 8¼" × 11" (21 cm × 28 cm).