All About Techniques in Dry Media

by Vicenç Ballestar, Michael Brunelle (Translator), Beatriz Cortabarria (Translator)

Books in this popular series instruct experienced amateurs as well as more advanced art students who have already mastered basic art techniques. Combining comprehensive textual advice with many highly detailed illustrations, these books teach students how to create complete, highly finished artwork of professional quality. This volume instructs on the uses of charcoal sticks and pencils, sanguine, pastels, chalk, crayons, and colored pencils. It also provides helpful information on uses of different types of paper and art tools. Training emphasizes blending, mixing, and contrasting colors, as well as creating chiaroscuro effects when working in black and white or with a single color. Illustrative examples include portraits, still lifes, landscapes, animal illustrations, and human figure studies. Hundreds of color illustrations.

Genres: Art

143 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2005

Reviews

[Cody Murphy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought this was a pretty good compilation of techniques and ideas for drawing. I think the idea of using a craft knife to shave pencil lead for a coloring technique is pretty crafty, so I found the idea in this book to do the same for crayons to be pretty creative. Overall a good read or flip through book.