Pastel pointers : top 100 secrets for beautiful paintings

298 Pages·2010·6.17 MB·English

by  McKinley

Pastel Pointers
Richard McKinley
TOP SECRETS FOR BEAUTIFUL PASTEL PAINTINGS
Cascade Glow–detail (cover), 22″ × 28″ (56cm × 71cm)
Summer Color (page 2), 12″ × 18″ (30cm × 46cm)
Spring Rains (page 7), 18″ × 15″ (46cm × 38cm)
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
McKinley, Richard
Pastel pointers : top secrets for beautiful pastel paintings / Richard McKinley. –
1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4403-0839-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
eISBN-13: 978-1-4403-1381-3
1. Pastel drawing – Technique. I. Title.
NC880.M39 2010
741.2′35--dc22
2010028709
edited by SARAH LAICHAS
production edited by MAIJA ZUMMO
designed by JENNIFER HOFFMAN
production coordinated by MARK GRIFFIN
Metric Conversion Chart
To convert to multiply by
To convert to multiply by
Inches Centimeters 2.54
Centimeters Inches 0.4
Feet Centimeters 30.5
Centimeters Feet 0.03
Yards Meters 0.9
Meters Yards 1.1
About the Author
Richard McKinley has been a professional artist for 38 years and has more than
35 years of teaching experience. He writes a weekly blog for The Pastel Journal
titled Pastel Pointers that has appeared on www.artistsnetwork.com since 2007,
and he's written for the periodical since 2003. He's taught and participated in
national and international workshops for more than 30 years. His work is shown
in several national galleries, and he is an Artist Member of the Salmagundi Club
of NYC, a Signature Member and 2010 Hall of Fame inductee of the Pastel
Society of America, a Signature Distinguished Pastelist with the Pastel Society
of the West Coast, a signature member of the Northwest Pastel Society, and a
member of the Oil Painters of America. His work has been included in several
North Light Books including A Painters Guide to Design and Composition,
Painting with Pastels by Maggie Price and Pure Color: The Best of Pastel.
Richard has also produced two instructional DVDs on pastel painting for
ArtistsNetwork.tv. Visit his website at www.mckinleystudio.com and blog at
http://pastelpointersblog.artistsnetwork.com.
Acknowledgments
A Gentle Rain, 15″ × 18″ (38cm × 46cm)
Everything shared in the pages of this book comes from the applied lessons of
those gracious artists that have provided knowledge and inspiration to myself
and other aspiring painters over the years. A special thanks is given to all the
students I have been fortunate enough to interact with. Far more has been
learned from them than any other source.
Credit must be given to: my mother Beneva McKinley, for instilling a sense of
artistic wonder in me at an early age; to my high school art instructor James
Snook, for seeing potential and challenging me to use it; to my first artistic
mentor Margaret Stahl Moyer, for providing guidance and discipline; and to
master painter Albert Handell, for giving permission to listen to my inner artistic
voice.
Heartfelt thanks are given to Janie Hutchinson and Maggie Price for having
the vision to found The Pastel Journal and for allowing me to first publish in its
pages.
Gratitude is owed to the wonderful team at F+W Media: publisher Jamie
Markle and editorial director Pam Wissman, for having proposed the project and
guiding it along to completion; to editor Sarah Laichas, for all her patience and
hard work in the laborious task of pulling together all the years of writings; to all
the editors and editorial staff I have been fortunate enough to work with:
Maureen Bloomfield, Chris McHugh, Jessica Canterbury and Sarah Strickley;
and most of all, the one person that deserves the credit of dual authorship, Pastel
Journal editor Anne Hevener, for making my words coherent and sound so good
over the years.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to all of my painting friends for years of artistic
camaraderie and to Don Robertson for his unwavering support of my artistic
journey.
Contents
Introduction