Book: The Art of Shading – Portrait – Pundalik Vaze

‘Sketching’ is a unique book of its kind. Written by well-known illustrator Pratap Mulick who has planned it on the basic of lifelong artistic exploration of his career. The author has attempted to highlight various aspects of sketching and figure drawing. The book undoubtedly is very useful for students and artists as it shows Indian models in their cultural and historical diversity. Set in easy-to-read type, each topic has been captioned in simple terms.

Milind Mulick’s mastery over watercolours is already well-known. His work and articles have appeared in reputed international publications devoted to art. In this book he has revealed in simple terms, how to get the best out of opaque colours. His skill in making the subject easy to understand for beginners and students is also evident here.

This book by Gopal Nandurkar and Rahul Deshpande is one of the ‘Methods & Techniques’ series. It details the use of different types of pastels such as soft pastels, oil pastels, pastel pencils and pastels with other media.

Vasudeo Kamath, winner of the Draper Grand Prize of the Portrait Society of America, brings to fore his understanding of the subject and his teaching skills as he explains the techniques of portrait painting through various examples. His instructions, as he takes the student through the steps of Pencil, Charcoal, Monochrome, Tricolour, Colour is sure to be of great help to students.