Do you want to try painting in soft pastel but you are not sure where to start? Check out these basic pastel painting techniques to get you going. Soft pastel is one of the most fun painting mediums: it is direct, …
Colour Temperature is an important concept for painters. Once we learn to see the temperature of colours we can make our paintings look much more realistic and lively. Now we probably all know that red is warm and blue is …
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Do we need another book on pastel painting? You tell me! I think there are not that many books on pastel painting out there and many are pretty old. As I have been building my online course on pastel painting recently, …
Uart pastel paper is a relatively new kid on the block. It is manufactured in the US by a sandpaper company. Most art papers are made by companies that specialise in products for artists, so this comes as a little …
Painting fine detail in pastel is a subject that is not often discussed. You would be forgiven to think, that the crude and often chunky pastel sticks do not lend themselves too well to hyper realism or fine detail. It …
Ever since I decided to create a pastel painting course I have been wondering how to do this. So many painting courses (or any course for that matter) follow the same formula: a teacher explains in front of an easel …
I recently bought two new sets of pastels: a small set of Terry Ludwig pastels and a set of Sennelier. This is my unscientific review of them. I have used Sennelier soft pastels before, but that was many years ago and …
Hard, soft, velvety, expressive: how do you prefer your pastel stick? Let’s find out the world’s most popular pastel brand. Please share this poll with any pastel artist you know. Professional and amateur pastelists welcome You can choose a max …
I recently heard of an art college that banned soft pastel because they thought it is toxic and should not be used. Although I find this an exaggerated, extreme and totally unnecessary measure (at an art college of all places!), …
Again and again people seem to refer to soft pastels as chalks, chalk crayons, chalk pastels and so forth. Even large art institutions seem still to be doing this. It creates the impression that chalks and pastels are the same …