Coloured Pencil Artist's Drawing Bible by Jane Strother

Coloured Pencil Artist's Drawing Bible by Jane Strother

Discover the art of coloured pencils and improve your drawing skills with this easy-to-use guide. Step-by-step instructions guide you through a range of blending, mark-making and mixed media techniques to improve your drawing skills and introduce you to a range of new effects. This book includes a comprehensive guide to colour and composition, and all the tools, materials and equipment you need to capture a range of subjects, from still-life studies to holiday sketching and portraiture. A gallery of inspirational works from other artists and an image bank of copyright-free photographs mean you can get started straight away.

July 08

Coloured pencils have always been the Cinderella of art materialsThey're the things we give children, that we buy cheaply by the box because they don't make too much mess and they don't require hours of preparation and cleaning up afterwards (the pencils; children do that all by themselves). So we put them aside when we grow up and become Proper Artists and move on to the serious matter of oils and watercolours. And maybe pastels.

Graphic designers are not so constrained, however. Having a job to do, they'll use any tool that gets it done and they have driven the development of ranges of artist and designer quality pencils that can hold their head up with any other medium. And that has, in its turn, spawned the occasional book that shows you just what you can achieve if you just believe.

Put all these innovative ideas together with a proven and excellent series and you have the perfect guide for both the beginner and more experienced artist alike.

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Jane Strother has worked across a wide range of media in her career as an artist and teacher. She currently teaches workshops on oil pastels, drawing, painting and printmaking, and gives talks and demos about her own work. Jane has won prizes and exhibited widely across the UK. As an illustrator, she has had work published by Saatchi Design, Reader's Digest, Longman, Heinemann, Penguin and Random House. She lives in Oxfordshire.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781844483235
ISBN 10	1844483231
Title	Coloured Pencil Artist's Drawing Bible
Author	Jane Strother
Series	Artist's Bible
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Search Press Ltd
Year published	2008-05-15
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.