Painting with Pastels (04)

Peter Combs shows how to paint beautiful pictures using over 75 step-by-step photographs and a variety of inspirational paintings. Learn how to blend and merge colours, how to create beautiful skies, landscapes and waterscapes and how to capture light, shade and atmosphere.

Contents include blending and merging colours, creating perspective, painting a landscape, painting a riverbank and painting a night scene.

Peter Combs first learned to paint with his artist mother when he was a child. As he grew up he progressed onto cartoons, oils and pastels. He started work, but decided to paint full time when he began receiving many commissions. He has exhibited in the UK, Grance, Germany, Holland, Swizerland, America, Canada, Japan and Australia. He has also appeared on television and given radio talks and interviews about his life as an artist, and his love of cricket. Peter holds regular workshops and is a demonstrator for Winsor & Newton, visiting schools, art clubs and art shops, where he shares his techniques with an enthusiastic audience.