Painting Skies in Pastel - Sandra Orme

This book will teach beginners and beyond the confidence and skills to create convincing, stunning skyscapes, from rich, glowing sunsets to bright clouds on a fresh, blustery day. This practical and inspiring book distils award-winning artist Sandra Orme's insights and experience into a complete course in the fundamentals of working with pastels. She explores those aspects of colour that are key to painting skies: how to retain vibrancy; how to avoid muddy colours through the use of 'bridging' colours; and how many pastels to use for the best effect.  Each of the stage-by-stage projects focuses upon a particular sky effect, and each main stage is shown both before and after blending for clarity. Her 'Sky clinic', which finishes the book, offers more specialist and technical help on some of the common problems readers might encounter. Containing the all-important specifics on how to hold the pastel to make various marks, along with close-up pictures showing how the surface should look before you start to blend at each stage, this book assumes no prior knowledge – and contains information and insights of value to even the most confident artist.

Further Details

Author: Sandra Orme | Subtitle: Creating dramatic clouds and atmospheric skyscapes | Format: Paperback | Pages: 128 | Publisher: Search Press | Publication date: 31 August 2023 | Dimensions: 216 x 280 x 8 mm | Illustrations: 300 Colour illustrations | ISBN: 9781782219897

Product Features

• The only guide to creating dramatic skies in pastel | Author is an associate artist with Unison art
• and an award-winning artist and tutor who specialises in painting dramatic skies
• with a considerable online following | Very little competition – most books on pastel painting cover more general subjects such as landscapes or seascapes | Six exquisite stage-by-stage projects and a chapter on fundamental pastel techniques

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