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Daniel Greene does have a book on pastel work, but it is long out of print -- however, there seem to be gazillion of copies available, because I have seen them at mall discount outlets and on internet sites and so on. I wish I'd bought every one I'd ever seen, and parlayed them on Ebay -- I could have retired. Quite honestly, I'd send you my copy, but it's in storage a half hemisphere from where I am. But I'm serious, because my art "career" began by another artist's handing me a copy of one of her favourite books, and I'd be so happy to pass on the favour. Joe Singer has a good one, too, but it's older and out of print, and the fact is, the advances in colour printing technology make the more recent publications a lot more exciting to work with anyway.
You're a bit past Greene's portrait drawing video, interesting as it is. I'd recommend starting with his pastel portrait video, which actually incorporates the drawing video's teachings. However, it's about drawing and laying on pastel and you won't get a lot of "now this is cadmium red 373 and this is caput mortuum 242 laid over it". Still . . . Daniel Greene's very generous with everything he knows. I don't believe his studio has a website. I'll try to dig out the studio address (it's in North Salem, New York, just north of NYC, on the Connecticut border) and post it or e-mail you, and they'll send you a brochure with the video information. I wonder if there aren't at least a small handful of other artists, whom you might contact via a local art store bulletin board, who would share in the expense of the videos with you.
Again, the magic lies in just keeping at it. Scales eventually come to the pianist, muscle memory to the guitarist, molecular structure to the chemist. Truly -- and I hope you will believe this -- you've already mastered a great deal of the very hard work involved. Stop for ten minutes before and after every session and quietly, contemplatively remind yourself of that, without any obligations or expectations.
Best wishes,
Steven
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