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How to Paint a Screech Owl in Pastel, with Tracey Maras

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  1. Screech Owl Reference Photo
  2. Screech Owl Materials
  3. Stage 1: Gathering reference materials – The Importance of Research
  4. Stage 2: Design & Composition
  5. Stage 3: Underpainting
  6. Stage 4: Selection of colors
  7. Stage 5: Blocking in, beginning with the darks
  8. Stage 6: Building the feathers, working with mid-value colors
  9. Stage 7: Establishing the background
  10. Stage 8: Concentrating on the Details - Beak
  11. Stage 9: Concentrating on the Details – Legs & Feet
  12. Stage 10: Concentrating on the Details - Eyes
  13. Stage 11: Concentrating on the Details – Final Highlights
  14. Screech Owl - Things to Remember

Unison Soft Pastels

  • Additional 4
  • Additional 24
  • Additional 39
  • Additional 49
  • Additional 52
  • Blue Violet 2
  • Blue Violet 14
  • Blue Violet 15
  • Grey 3
  • Grey 13
  • Grey 14
  • Dark 8
  • Red 3
  • Red 4
  • Red 13
  • Red Earth 10
  • Red Earth 14
  • Brown Earth 19
  • Brown Earth 23
  • Brown Earth 22
  • Grey 20
  • Grey 22
  • Grey 27
  • Light 1

NuPastel Pastels

  • 333-P
  • 229

Art Spectrum Pastel

  • P518

For this painting, I used UArt 400 paper, taped onto a foam core backer board.

Isopropyl alcohol and a 1” wide brush for the underpainting

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