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An excellent, basic beginner's guide
Jenny Keal's Landscapes In Pastel offers the beginner everything necessary to get started painting landscapes, from an introduction to sources of inspiration and equipment to techniques of creating detail, capturing sun and shadow, and depicting animals, landscapes and people. An excellent, basic beginner's guide. ... Read more

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The definitive book on colored pencil
As an artist who works in colored pencil as one of preferred medium, I am not ashamed to state that I basically learnt my technique from this book (and lots of exercise, of course.) Ms. Borgeson provides in this book both primary techniques of color application, which instantly put colored pencil in the "painting" category with their rich color and texture possibilities - and "tricks" for getting various effects. Focused on painterly texture and color, but not shunning experimental things, this book is one of the best to get started in color pencils - and return to it over and over again for refreshment. You won't find step-by-step instructions of "how to draw a blue horse" in his book, but rather a variety of examples and principles on which to build a color pencil drawing.

Good ... I needed more actual exercises, though.
I bought this book and 'Colored Pencil For The Serious Beginner' and I just didn't find them very helpful, though others certainly have. What I need is step-by-step exercises as I build my technique rather than examples and explainations and this book just didn't provide as many and at the depth I found elsewhere. The explainations were great, to be sure, but I have since found that things are explained much better (for me) in other publications. She has a particular style of work that is not so much photo-realistic as impressionist and maybe that is the reason it didn't suit me. I'm sure others will find it perfect for their style of learning.

Break into the market with a new medium
Borgeson's book, "The Colored Pencil" is a comprehensive step-by-step guide to this medium. The acceptance of colored pencil work is fairly new and just starting to boom in the greeting card market as well as in other venues. Although the use of this medium may seem fairly straightforward, Borgeson gives tips on how to master the techniques for the traditional market.

Tools and surfaces are covered, and a color wheel and a touch of color theory is included. Borgeson is fairly crisp with her reviews of these basics for the beginner, and these tools are also invaluable as a refresher for the pro. The book is clearly focused on illustration and commercial uses for colored pencil rather than fine art aspects.

Clearly the most comprehensive summary of the medium.
The Colored Pencil is clearly the most organized and comprehensive summary of the medium's techniques and methods. It offers all that is necessary to know in approaching its use. My only dissapointment is the lack of a broader range of example images. The drawings shown have a tendency to lean toward the contrived and sentimental which would be fine if the author also included some drawings that were more experimental and intellectual. The spectacular work of artist Ann McCoy (New York) comes immdiately to mind in this regard. ... Read more

Book Description

From the time she could pick up a crayon, painter/sculptor Rita Blitt has never ceased to make art. This elegant publication chronicles her progression from powerfully flowing black line paintings to morphic pastel drawings and then to 60-foot abstract sculptures. Ironically, when Blitt first encountered abstract expressionism she questioned the new art form; however, she eventually embraced it, crafting drawings, paintings and monumental sculptures to international acclaim. Six decades of evolution in an important artist's work.Dimension: 8 x 7½ inches, 220 full color reproductions. ... Read more

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Great Art
What a refreshing and inspiring book!!!

Note from the publisher
There are few indepth publications on American sculpture's and the process they embrace when working from the line on the page to the actualthree dimmensional structure. This elegant and understated artists book does all this while opening up a window to the process involved. Rita Blitt, well recognized in the mid-west for her lyrical sculptures, takes the viewer on a wonderful journey of line and construction. A journey that anyone can appreciate and enjoy.

REAL ART
A BEAUTIFUL DOWN TO EARTH ART BOOK ABOUT ONE WOMAN'S LIFETIME DEDICATED TO HER ART AND DESIRE TO INSPIRE OTHERS TO CREATE. NICE TO SEE AN ART BOOK ABOUT A "REAL" ARTIST; NOT SOME MAINSTREAM PRIMA-DONNA. A GREAT BOOK TO CURL UP WITH ON A COLD WINTERS NIGHT AND BE INSPIRED. ... Read more

Book Description

Esta serie esta diseñada para aquellos que tienen el pasatiempo de dibujar por primera vez.Cubriendo el arte sin dificultad. ... Read more