Guidance

You will need a collection of seed heads, your Unison Colour pastels in suitable colours although it really won’t be a problem if you don’t have exactly the same colours as your seed heads just the closest you have. Some smooth papers to show the pastel marks well. I have used the smooth side of Daler Rowney Murano in white and some black Clairefontaine Maya.  Once you have practiced finding beautiful marks and feel confident then you could use come Clairefontaine pastelmat as it holds drawn detail so well. I would, however, avoid highly textured papers as these don’t show off the detail at all well. If you only have textured paper, Ingres or honeycombe then use the smooth side if they have one or work in an A3 sketchbook on cartridge paper.