{"product_id":"drawing-with-charcoal","title":"Drawing with Charcoal","description":"Charcoal is a versatile and dramatic medium with incredible potential for expression. This stunning book shows you how to create a drawing using its subtle, complex and bold qualities to best effect. Through step-by-step demonstrations and tasks, it explores the process, explaining how to capture a scene or the feeling of a scene, and, essentially, how best to fix an image to the page. With over 200 illustrations, this beautiful book is a compelling guide for everyone who wants to work with this elusive and powerful medium. Topics covered include: The basics of charcoal - explains the material, its qualities and ways of using it; Charcoal lenses - advises on how to choose interesting subjects with the use of photography and sketchbooks, and how to build a library of visual references; Mark making - includes techniques for complete beginners, as well as more advanced ideas for those hoping to develop and refine their work; Demonstrations - shows how to use the techniques and build a body of work; Soft pastel - suggests ways of combining charcoal with pastel to add colour to your work; Tasks and extensions - gives tips for trying and exploring ideas further to develop your own skills and to create a unique style to your work and finally: Protecting your work - advises on the key techniques used for fixing, photographing, storing and framing your work.\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 144 pages | Published November 2021\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Crowood Press Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63956726284637,"sku":"9781785009754","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/3459\/8749\/files\/9781785009754.jpg?v=1774263654","url":"https:\/\/www.thebookmark.ie\/products\/drawing-with-charcoal","provider":"The Bookmark ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}