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.

In this book, Mulick has depicted moods and colours of nature in a different way. These paintings are random flows. Combinations of different colours, tonal patches and brushstrokes. Sometimes the strokes caress each other gently, revealing natural forms.

Pencil and paper are the most preliminary but important materials which open the creative world of drawing to artists. There are many ways to handle the pencil.

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.

‘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.

In this book, Tushar Moleshwari has tried to explore figure drawing from a different perspective and has shared his experiences. He gives immense importance to the primary intuitions which inspires an artist to draw and paint.