Beginner's Guide to Painting with Oil Pastels

Learn to paint with oil pastels in this accessible guidebook featuring projects, techniques, and inspiration to get you started. Tim Fisher demonstrates how to use the oil pastels, with an in-depth explanation of mark-making, and explains how to combine oil pastels with other, more traditional mediums such as acrylics and watercolour, and how to work on and prepare a variety of surfaces. This colorful guide features exercises and techniques to practice before you apply your skills to create six oil pastel paintings, on subjects ranging from animal portraits to trees, foliage, buildings and water reflections.