Second part of the series - Pencil Techniques. The book gives complete information on different types of pencils such as charcoal pencil, conte pencil, glass marking, colour pencil, pastel pencil and watercolour pencil. Rahul Deshpande and Gopal Nandurkar have a great mastery over the pencil medium. Their demonstrations and picture gallery explain every aspect of this medium.

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.

Renowned artist Chandramohan Kulkarni has created a lot of work on Apple ipad with apps like ArtRage, Layers Pro and so on. Here he talks about the technical aspects of painting, and how to handle digital media most effectively.

As every artist knows, sketching is the foundation on which a painting is developed. In his masterful way, Mulick explains the use of pencils and ink as well as colour to make sketches. From the rapid, minimalist sketches done in a few seconds to elaborate studies, sketchbook brings a happy smile to the reader’s face and encourages him to take up pencil and begin.

Anant Kulkarni has a long teaching experience in one of the best Art Schools in India, Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai. Besides teaching he is working as a freelance Illustrator and Designer, with his own style and approach. He gives utmost importance to concept building in his work. These works will inspire art school students, professional artists and art lovers too.

Newly revised edition of this book. Sanjay Shelar is a young artist from Kolhapur tradition of realistic school. Though his main subject of interest is portrait and figure, he is also in constant search of new subjects for landscapes and still life painting. In this book he explains his methods of sketching and drawing, classifying concepts of rapid sketch, time sketch as well as detailed tonal study.

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.

Milind Mulick is well-known both in India, and abroad as one of the foremost watercolourists. He is as good a teacher of art, as he is a painter. This book is a result of his many years of experience in teaching watercolour painting.