Raw Colour With Pastels

by Mark Leach

Unlike many art instruction books that focus on capturing realistic images, this unusual title offers inspiration and instruction on using pastels to translate landscapes into evocative abstractions. Putting emphasis on the pure-pigment aspect of pastels, award-winning artist Mark Leach offers exciting insights into the powerful connection between color and feeling. Designed for artists of all abilities, it covers everything from making composition sketches to displaying the finished work, and includes chapters on light, form, and texture; understanding the color wheel; and painting from sketchbooks and photographs.

Genres: Art, Reference

128 pages, Hardcover

First published October 28, 2006

About the author

Mark Leach was a professional artist from Sussex, England. He passed away suddenly in the summer of 2008.

Mark was a leading figure in the world of contemporary pastel painting with many prizes and publications to his name. His work, whether landscape, cityscape or still life, concerns the place of man in nature and seeks an essential truth and harmony through simple colour, line and form.

Reviews

[Barbara McEwen · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great book I would love to buy for reference. The artworks are beautiful and plentiful and the text was insightful and easy to understand. I have never read an art instruction book where the artist can so clearly explain why and how he does what he does. Really well done.