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| Raw Colour with Pastels | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Leach
Publisher: Batsford
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 309112
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0713489995
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.235
EAN: 9780713489996
ASIN: 0713489995
Publication Date: October 28, 2006
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Product Description
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.
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 Learn more October 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So you think you know all about pastel? Read this book and learn more. Learn how to make your pastels really sparkle with feeling. Learn how to use pastels of differing hardness to advantage. The book has good basic information and a wealth of insights the author has garnered over years of painting. It is well written in a sort of humble, thankful, forthright way. The pictures and Mr. Leach's use of color (colour), are very exciting. Don't skip the more subtle images, study them.
Raw Colour with Pastels April 7, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this book for those who want to go to the essence of color and design. This is a wonderful book, that concentrates on pure color and uncomplicated shapes. I think everyone who wants a fresh look to their painting style can benefit from this book in their repetoire. Sylvia Casillas
Great for learning abstraction January 11, 2007
35 out of 36 found this review helpful
One of the best books in my art library. Mark Leach describes clearly his process in developing luminous color with pastels, while abstracting subject matter to the simplest of shapes. I love this book and use it constantly, and I am an oil painter. Valuable, in my opinion, regardless of your medium.
That person is SO wrong! January 6, 2007
52 out of 53 found this review helpful
The first person who commented on Raw Colour evidently was under the impression that this wonderful book was merely a how-to title. Having read Raw Colour from cover at least twice, I can truly say that the person who wrote that negative comment was totally wrong in interpreting this book as a how-to for abstraction! That could not be more mistaken! It's definitely not a how-to book. It's a wonderfully exciting book covering one artist's way of exploring his feelings about his subject and how he is able to express them through his use of color. I found it a very freeing book and one that reignites my desire to paint every time I open it, which is often. It is an exciting new addition to my very large library on art and pastel in particular. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in color, pastel and art expression in general. Mikki Root Dillon, PSA
 Not enough substance January 3, 2007
4 out of 23 found this review helpful
There are so many better books on abstraction. I would give this one a pass.
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