Creative eCourses
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 …
Pastel
Review: Terry Ludwig and Sennelier Soft Pastels
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 …
Poll: Your Favourite Pastel Brand
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 of …
Soft Pastel: Is It Safe To Use?
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!), …
Why Soft Pastels are not Chalks
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 …
Colour Mixing in Pastel
How to mix colours to create the ones you don’t haveTake this short course to learn how to layer your colours and create the most amazing shadesBusting the Myths of Pastel PaintingTrailer (there is not music and talking at the …
Unison Midnight Darks Review
Unison’s new Midnight Dark Set colours were announced only last August but I’ve seen a lot of artists get them and a love them. I could not resist of course so I bought a set. This is my review. Unison is …
Ten Reasons Why I Love Soft Pastel
1. No Drying TimeSoft pastel does not need to dry like most other paints do. Pastel is like other dry drawing materials ( such as coloured pencil or graphite) except that you can actually paint as well as draw with …
My Top 12 Pastel Colours
A single brand of pastels will have over 400 colours in their repertoire. And as we have seen, there are dozens of pastel brands out there. A ‘Candy-Store’ trap many pastel artists fall into is to keep on buying all …
Best Pastel Brands
After another lovely day of teaching students the dusty joys of pastel I thought it might be useful to write a blog post about all the different pastel brands available. Well, I have not tried them all. But I can …