Painting Pastel Landscapes

He lives in Yorkshire and runs popular painting workshops and holidays.. He has been a freelance illustrator, artist, demonstrator and teacher since 1978 and has illustrated a wide variety of books and greetings cards. Jeremy Ford studied graphic design at the Southport College of Art, and Illustration at the Harrow College of Art

You'll discover how to portray all the details of a landscape - colour, perspective, and all the elements such as water, sky and more. The book is full of illustrations to show the techniques and five step-by-step projects. It is both informative and practical. It's a book for the beginner, or those at least in the early stages of their artistic career and everything is explained clearly and in detail. I love this book. * Artbookreview * . I think this is a book that will really help you paint pastel landscapes. Recommended. The landscapes are all executed using chalk pastels. Even the technical section at the beginning is more comprehensive than some and the clearly and extensively illustrated sections on basic mark-making, blending and underpainting are worth the cover price in themselves. You could use this book l

Written by pastel expert and former Society for All Artists President Jeremy Ford, this gorgeous book is packed full of chalk pastel techniques and inspiring step-by-step projects. It starts with the basics, such as mark-making and blending, through using colour and tone and creating skyscapes, to more advanced techniques including successfully creating depth and perspective. A wide range of Jeremy’s gorgeous and inspiring work is shown throughout the book to inspire and encourage the reader.. The book builds in difficulty, interspersing the techniques with five beautiful step-by-step projects, allowing the reader to either dip in and out of the book for inspiration, or to follow the book as a course to build up their skills

Finally!!! Hamhock Jeremy Ford is a Teacher. He knows the questions before they are asked. This is an excellent book for beginners. I have at least 6 pastel books I ordered on Amazon. They all had great reviews but none have helped me better than Mr. Fords. I loved this book so much I ordered his watercolor book as well. Sandy Askey-Adams said Excellent, Helpful Book.. An excellent book on working with Pastels. One can learn much from the teachings of Jeremy Ford by reading this bookand of course, working every day on your own pastel work. You learn by working and keeping at it.The contents tell you what papers to use, blending tools, how to do underpainting using alcohol which is very popular today, what materials to use, tell you about usig color and form, chapters on painting snow, varied elements of the landscape such a. evonnie said Great step by step instructions. This book has great step by step instructions for several project,. It contains basic blending and mark making techniques and underpainting instructions.