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Beginner's Guide to Painting with Oil Pastels: Projects, techniques and inspiration to get you started
Learn to paint with oil pastels in this accessible book for the absolute beginner.
Learn to paint with oil pastels in this straightforward guide to this relatively unexplored medium.
Tim Fisher demonstrates how to use the oil pastels on their own, or in conjunction with acrylic inks and paints and watercolours, on a variety of surfaces to create beautiful paintings that will maintain their vibrancy for years to come.
This Beginner's Guide to Painting with Oil Pastels features six full step-by-step projects covering a variety of subjects from animal portraits to boats, harbours and reflections, and introduces the reader to mark-making with oil pastels and using solvents for a textured finish.
The book also explains how to preserve, keep and frame your oil pastel works safely.
Learn to paint with oil pastels in this straightforward guide to this relatively unexplored medium.
Tim Fisher demonstrates how to use the oil pastels on their own, or in conjunction with acrylic inks and paints and watercolours, on a variety of surfaces to create beautiful paintings that will maintain their vibrancy for years to come.
This Beginner's Guide to Painting with Oil Pastels features six full step-by-step projects covering a variety of subjects from animal portraits to boats, harbours and reflections, and introduces the reader to mark-making with oil pastels and using solvents for a textured finish.
The book also explains how to preserve, keep and frame your oil pastel works safely.
- GenresArt
96 pages, Paperback
Published November 6, 2018
About the author
Tim Fisher
58 books2 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
After twenty years in the U.S. Navy, Tim retired and returned to school earning three degrees. Less than two years later, he was forced to medically retire from physical work. Tim legally changed his name on 8/21/08 to Timothy Odell Hanner and, in the future, will be writing under that name.
Previously, his hobbies were Scuba Diving (Instructor), Karate (Instructor), Sky Diving and flying as a private pilot. He now spends his time writing and learning to cook.
Tim is the author of two novels in the Chronicles of Bear series. They are This Dark Time and Rebel's Revenge. In addition to the series, Tim is working on two novels. One is The Mammatus Effect, which involves a think tank on a secret island resort run by the military. The second is Destiny Island in which three young adults are shipwrecked on an island that has a legend of restless spirits. In the future, look for him to take you to The Breaks and The Lake.
You can learn more about him, his hobbies and interests on his myspace
page at www.myspace.com/scubadoc51.
After twenty years in the U.S. Navy, Tim retired and returned to school earning three degrees. Less than two years later, he was forced to medically retire from physical work. Tim legally changed his name on 8/21/08 to Timothy Odell Hanner and, in the future, will be writing under that name.
Previously, his hobbies were Scuba Diving (Instructor), Karate (Instructor), Sky Diving and flying as a private pilot. He now spends his time writing and learning to cook.
Tim is the author of two novels in the Chronicles of Bear series. They are This Dark Time and Rebel's Revenge. In addition to the series, Tim is working on two novels. One is The Mammatus Effect, which involves a think tank on a secret island resort run by the military. The second is Destiny Island in which three young adults are shipwrecked on an island that has a legend of restless spirits. In the future, look for him to take you to The Breaks and The Lake.
You can learn more about him, his hobbies and interests on his myspace
page at www.myspace.com/scubadoc51.
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September 25, 2023
Precise and inclusive
This is a great work for beginners. It includes all that is absolutely necessary to do oil, pastels, and no more incidentals. Therefore, it is easy for a beginner to get the jist of how to do this medium.
This is a great work for beginners. It includes all that is absolutely necessary to do oil, pastels, and no more incidentals. Therefore, it is easy for a beginner to get the jist of how to do this medium.
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May 6, 2026As a Beginner's guide I would have appreciated more affordable art supply recomendations. This book was very informative though and I look forward to trying these tips and tricks. Was hoping for more about storage / display in depth.
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