Our recommended path for beginner's, bringing together various Pastel Academy courses covering a range of topics and styles.
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Course List
Each month we’ll have a hand picked selection of brand new and exclusive online trainings, workshops, PDF guides and live Q&A’s.
We’ll make sure there’s a range of tuition materials to suit all experience levels – from absolute pastel beginners to professional artists. There’s bound to be something for everyone every month.
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Intermediate Path
If you've completed the Beginner's path, the Intermediate Path is the next step with a more advanced selection of courses.
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Advanced Path
If you've got a good grip on the foundational pastelling skills, this path takes you through the more advanced courses at the Pastel Academy.
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Frisket Masking with Tricia Findlay
A demonstration in using Frisket Masking film to create the background of a bird painting.
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Painterly Skies Using Only 3 Colours with Stephen Fuller
Stephen shows you how to paint a sky in a painterly and loose style with only 3 colours in a 15 minute tutorial.
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Simplifying A Winter Lake with Tracey Maras
A written guide on avoiding the trap of trying to include everything from a reference photo.
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Moody Blues with Lucy Brangwin
An introduction to blending with fingers as well as some blending of pastel on pastel, using a limited grey and blue palette with some sandy tones to create a moody scene.
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Cottage In Snow with Steve Hall
Steve guides you through creating his snow scene from a photograph of a cottage, without the snow!
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Snow Shadows with Fiona Carvell
Fiona teaches you how to work quickly, resulting in more lively and expressive mark making, with 46 minutes of video tuition.
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Cat’s Eyes with Tricia Findlay
Tricia guides you through painting a cat's eyes in a realistic style, with 80 minutes of video tuition.
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Puffin Tutorial with Su Melville
Join Su as she guides you through painting Puffins with over 1 hour 40 mins of video tutorial.
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Limited Palette Landscape with Julie Skoda
Follow along with Julie Skoda as she creates a landscape using limited colours.
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Drawing From Nature with an Abstract Colour Palette with Caitlin Heslop
Join Caitlin as she guides you through 15 minutes of video to produce a unique still life abstract.
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Masking Tecniques with Unison Colour Soft Pastels with Robert Dutton
Robert's written guide covers some Innovative pastel techniques.
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Working with a Limited Colour Palette with Liz Myhill
A written guide about focussing on the most meaningful colours to compliment your subject.
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Autumn Leaves with Fiona Carvell
Join Fiona for 2 hours of tuition, painting a still life of Autumn leaves.
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Developing a Portrait Profile with Denise Findlay
Learn how Denise develops a soft pastel portrait using pastels (along with pastel pencils) to layer, blend and block in to create a beautiful painting.
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Portrait of a Young Women with Lynn Howarth
A 2 hour demo where you can work along with me to create a portrait of a young woman with long blonde hair. The main focus is on getting really complementary and realistic skintones.
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Dhinawan Emu with Brent Emerson
Join Brent for some vivid Aboriginal art, painting a pair of Dhinawan Emus.
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North Carr Lane with Peter Wood
Join Peter for a plein air session with lots of tips and lessons.
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Sunflower Collage with Judy Tate
Create a still life floral painting that is lively and colourful with lots of exciting mark making.
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Clouds with Susan Klabak
An in-depth written guide on painting clouds.
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Catch a Wave with Jeff Fioravanti
A written guide taking you through the creation of a Seascape.
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12 Squares with Alison Berrett
A short, inspiring video with Alison Berrett on working on a miniature scale.