Introduction

Introduction
Month 1

Breaking your pastels in half
Mark Making
Month 2

Dexterity and handling
Month 3 - Pottery

Introduction
Materials Needed
Exercise 1 and 2
Exercise 3 and 4
Month 4 - Flowers

Materials Needed
Exercise 1
Exercise 2
Exercise 3
Month 5 - Painting Glass

Materials Needed
Month 6 - Reflections

Introduction
Guide
Demo
Month 7 - In The Garden

Guidance
Video
Month 8 - Sketching With Pastels In The Garden

Video and Guidance
Month 9 - Choose a Favourite Item to Study

Guidance
Video
Month 10 - Seasonal dried seed heads and a return to some expressive mark making

Guidance
Video
Month 11 - Finding an Exciting Composition

Guidance
Video
Month 12 - Christmas Baubles

Guidance
Video

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Dexterity and handling

Materials needed:

a collection of fabrics with a pattern of lines, stripes, plaid or checks. These maybe tablecloths, tea towels, shirts or sheets.
Smooth basic paper in loose sheets or in a sketchbook for practicing the mark making exercises. Pastel paper is not necessary at this stage.
A set of pastels or similar as described in the introduction for month 1.

Part 1

I shall use an old tea towel with regular narrow stripes, a colourful table cloth and a shirt which has a very regular checked pattern.

Practice these exercises to improve your dexterity and handling of your pastels as this will eventually show in your work as confident and exciting marks.

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12 Month Still Life with Cathy Pearce

Introduction

Dexterity and handling

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