Pastel School: A Practical Guide to Painting and Drawing with Pastels Book

	Introduction	8
1	What You Will Need
	About Pastels	18
	Pastel Care	22
	Paper Texture	24
	Paper Color	26
	The Studio and the Portable Kit	28
2	First Marks
	Working with Pastels	32
	Line Strokes	34
	Side Strokes	36
	Combining Strokes	38
	Gestural Drawing	40
3	Building Up Your Skills
	Color Mixing	44
	Blending Large Areas	48
	Blending Small Areas	52
	Using Line Stokes	56
	Broken Color	58
	Overlaying Colors	60
	Underdrawing	62
	Building Up a Painting	64
	Edges, Outlines, and Details	66
	Wet Brushing	68
	Charcoal and Pastel	70
	Underpainting	72
	Using Thick Color	74
	Laying a Textured Ground	76
	Making Corrections	78
	Comparing Methods	80
4	Basics of Picture Making
	Composing the Picture	86
	Basic Color Principles	90
	Working from Life	94
	Using Visual References	96
	Making Your Sketches Work	98
	Exploring the Options	100
5	Picture Making
	Still Life	106
	Project 1: Painting fruit	112
	Project 2: Painting patterns	114
	Gallery	116
	Flowers	118
	Project 3: Violet and white flowers	124
	Gallery	126
	Landscape	130
	Project 4: Skies and seascapes	138
	Project 5: Hilly landscapes	140
	Gallery	142
	Portraits and Figures	146
	Project 6: Head-and-shoulders portrait	152
	Project 7: Figures in landscape	154
	Gallery	156
	Buildings	160
	Project 8: Mediterranean village	166
	Gallery	168
	Looking After Your Work	170
	Manufacturers' Equivalent Chart	172
	Index	173
	Credits	176