A guide to pastel materials and techniques. The author uses traditional soft and hard pastels, as well as oil pastels and oil sticks, showing the effects produced by each in step-by-step demonstrations. Included are ways to combine pastels with water, acrylic, alkyd gels and oil paint.
This reference to painting with oils compares leading brands of paints. It describes mediums, solvents and varnishes; illustrates brushes, pallettes and other tools; and shows both traditional and unconventional techniques.
Reich illustrierte, ausführliche Darstellung aller international gebräuchlichen und lieferbaren Materialien und Hilfsmittel sowie zahlreiche Informationen zu den verschiedenen Techniken.