The Encyclopedia of Pastel Techniques

Judy Martin is a painter, teacher and the author of a number of practical art books. She lives and works in Brighton, on England’s south coast, and exhibits in her home studio every year for the Artist’s Open Houses during Brighton Festival. She studied painting and printmaking at Maidstone College of Art and went on to a two-year postgraduate degree at Reading University. She was a freelance writer and editor for a period of fifteen years, and has subsequently worked in adult education and at a mental health day centre, facilitating groups in art craft and ceramic work.

Introducing acrylics, Techniques, Accenting, Acrylic and Pastel, Blending, Blocking In, Broken Colour, Building Up, Charcoal and Pastel, Coloured Grounds, Dry Wash, Edge Qualities, Erasures, Freathering, Fixing, Frottage, Gestural Drawing, Gouache and Pastel Gradations, Hatching and Crosshatching, Highlighting, Impasto, Linear Marks, Masking, Oil Painting and Pastel, Overlaying Colours, Pencil and Pastel, Pouncing, Projecting and Image, Resist Techniques, Scraping Out, Scratchboard with Oil Pastel, Scumbling, Sfumato, Sgraffito, Shading, Side Strokes, Sketching, Stippling, Textured Grounds, Tinting, Washes, Watercolour and Pastel, Wet Brushing, Themes, Landscape, The environment, The figure, Portraits, Still life, Index and credits,