Color Like Edgar Degas

Paint Like a Master--Paint Like Degas! Edgar Degas is one of the most enduringly popular artists of his time, and his unique style and experimental approach to painting, using oils, pastels and mixed media, make him an artist that any painter can learn from today. In Paint Like Degas, professional artist Damian Callan, combines insights into Degas' methods with practical exercises to offer an exciting new way to develop your painting skills--whatever your level. You will learn the secrets of the master's creativity, enriching your understanding of Degas' work and showing how you can apply his techniques to give your own art even more depth and life. Paint Like Degas includes: Techniques for using pastels, oil paints and mixed media to create works of art with depth and atmosphere Exercises on subjects ranging from developing composition to layering colors to making monotypes Masterclass demonstrations showing step-by-step how to combine techniques to create finished works of art

Enjoy the works of an impressionist painter 100 years later! We should never forget the art of years past. Thanks to The Met for making so many of histories fine artists available to the public so future generations can enjoy them once again. This coloring book includes 13 color images to reference and 13 lined colorable versions for you to color as you choose. The painting title and simply facts along with the estimated year created is also included. Great for: Art students, perfect to practice techniques of a master artist. Impressionist lovers. Colorist of all talent levels. Pick up yours today! Great gift for any artist or art lover in your life. Notebooks, Composition Books and Cornell Notebooks also available with Degas images. Edgar Degas. Born July 19,1834-Died September 27, 1917 Degas was a French painter and sculptor who was a major player in the impressionist movement. When browsing his paintings and sculptures you will find he had a fascination with the female form and ballet dancers in particular. He was particularly grand in capturing a moment in time of everyday activities, a concept embraced by the impressionist. Throughout his life, his work evolved from traditional to impressionistic with touches of realism and expressionism. Degas began using oil paints attempting to learn the techniques of the old masters by copying their work. Later he explored pastel and gouache and wax when sculpting. Towards the end of his life, he had failing eyesight and his work became more simplistic and brightly colored. Degas did more sculpting towards the end of his life as well. Degas loved to experiment and combine mediums in new ways seeing the effect they had. Sometimes combining oil and pastels, layering and removing ink in new ways. He experimented in printmaking and using etching plates. His relentless drive to further artist techniques is inspiring. He is even said to have been an influence on Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Please look for more offerings of notebooks, journals, planners and coloring books offered by Twigs Greenpage on the Amazon Marketplace.

All artists, whether beginner or expert, are inspired by the work of the greats that have gone before, and one of the most enjoyable ways to learn painting is to study their work in detail. Edgar Degas' unique style and experimental approach to painting, using oils, pastels, and mixed media, makes this artist particularly valuable to learn from, whatever your level of painting. Paint Like Degas offers a unique combination of insights into Degas' practice, illustrated with examples and demonstrations by Damian Callan, a contemporary artist who has studied and admired the master's work. Degas' wonderful gift for experimentation and creativity is explained with step-by-step tutorials on key techniques, materials and methods.

This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers’ perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba examines the importance of dyes produced in the second half of the nineteenth century to the vision of artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet. The proliferation of vibrant new colors in France during this time challenged popular understandings of realism, abstraction, and fantasy in the realms of fine art and popular culture. More than simply adding a touch of spectacle to everyday life, Kalba shows, these bright, varied colors came to define the development of a consumer culture increasingly based on the sensual appeal of color. Impressionism—emerging at a time when inexpensively produced color functioned as one of the principal means by and through which people understood modes of visual perception and signification—mirrored and mediated this change, shaping the ways in which people made sense of both modern life and modern art. Demonstrating the central importance of color history and technologies to the study of visuality, Color in the Age of Impressionism adds a dynamic new layer to our understanding of visual and material culture.

Edgar Degas was one of the great pioneers of modern art, and the J. Paul Getty and Norton Simon museums are fortunate to own jointly one of his finest pastels, Waiting (L'Attente), which he made sometime between 1880 and 1882, about midway in his career. In this fascinating monograph, author Richard Thomson explores this brilliant work in detail, revealing both the intricacies of its composition and the source of the emotional pull it immediately exerts upon the viewer. For Waiting is, indeed, an extraordinary object both in its craftsmanship and color and, perhaps most especially, in its aura of ambiguity and even mystery.

Edgar Degas (18341917) is best known for his luminous studies of dancers. Illustrated with drawings, pastels, paintings, prints and sculpture, as well as photographs taken by the artist and his contemporaries, and samples of film from the period, this text follows the development of Degas's ballet imagery.

Provides a simple introduction to French artist Edgar Degas and his pastel paintings of ballerinas.