All About Techniques in Dry Media (All About Techniques Series)

All About Techniques in Dry Media (All About Techniques Series)

Editorial Reviews Book Description 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. From the Back Cover [back cover]
Books in Barron’s All About Techniques series have been written for advanced art students and experienced amateurs. They explain the fundamentals of art theory, then give detailed advice on methods you must master to create finished artwork. All About Techniques in Dry Media, unlike other books in this series, encompasses instruction in not one but many different media—in this instance, all dry media normally used by artists. Detailed directions to help you master pencil, chalk, charcoal, and all other dry media are accompanied by instructive how-to illustrations

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