Pastel Painting Atelier
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Ellen Eagle
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- File Type: PDF
- File Size: 14.4 MB
- Book Language: English
- Total Page Count: 284
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Pastel Painting Atelier
Pastel Painting Atelier by Ellen Eagle is a practical digital guide to pastel painting techniques, practices, and materials. This PDF edition is available as an instant download.
The book combines material guidance, studio practices, genre-based discussion, working methods, and advice on displaying and handling pastel paintings and drawings.
Pastel Painting Atelier Overview
Ellen Eagle presents a detailed study of pastel painting for artists and readers interested in the medium. The book explains pastel materials, paper, lightfastness, toxicity, studio organization, and the stages of developing a painting.
Its scope includes portraiture, self-portraiture, still life, landscape, and the figure. The book also includes an introduction titled “A Luminous History, a Luminous Future,” a foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston, and an afterword.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- How to build, experiment with, store, and organize a collection of pastels.
- Considerations for lightfastness, toxicity, and selecting paper.
- Advanced studio practices, including making pastels and supports.
- Approaches to portraiture, self-portraiture, still life, landscape, and the figure.
- Working methods for tonal studies, proportion, gesture, composition, color, and applying pastel.
- Ways to identify problems, make corrections, and determine whether a work is finished.
- Guidance on caring for, framing, displaying, and traveling with pastel paintings.
Why This Book Matters
Pastel Painting Atelier brings together technical instruction and sustained attention to the working process of pastel painting. Its coverage of materials, studio practice, artistic genres, and conservation-related handling makes it a useful reference for pastel artists and students.
The book also places practical instruction alongside examples of pastel works and references to notable public collections of pastel paintings and drawings.
Book Details
| Author | Ellen Eagle |
|---|---|
| Title | Pastel Painting Atelier |
| Subtitle | Essential Lessons in Techniques, Practices, and Materials |
| Foreword | Maxine Hong Kingston |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Copyright | 2013 |
| Publisher | Watson-Guptill Publications |
| Imprint | Watson-Guptill Publications, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. |
| Publication Location | New York |
| Publication Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 284 |
| Format | |
| File Type | |
| File Size | 14.4 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 15149308 |
| eBook ISBN | 978-0-8230-0842-1 |
| Hardcover ISBN | 978-0-8230-0841-4 |
| Library of Congress Classification | NC880.E23 2013 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 741.2’35—dc23 |
| Library of Congress Control Number | 2012018761 |
| Book Design | Karla Baker |
| Jacket Design | Karla Baker |
| Jacket Art | Ellen Eagle |
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The file can be used with appropriate Kindle apps, tablets, desktop computers, mobile devices, and compatible reading apps. Compatibility may vary by device and application.
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Download this digital edition for reference while studying pastel materials, techniques, studio practices, and the working process.
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