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Introduction to Soft Pastels, with Rebecca de Mendonça

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  1. Getting Started

    Why use pastels?
  2. Is it drawing or painting?
  3. What is pastel?
  4. How many pastels do I need?
  5. What surface should I work on?
  6. Your Workspace
    Your Workspace
  7. Is it very dusty?
  8. Protecting and storing your work
  9. Cleaning your pastels
  10. Making Marks and Getting Inspired
    Limbering up
  11. Broad energetic strokes
  12. Smudging and Softening
  13. Hatching
  14. Twisting and turning
  15. Combining techniques
  16. To Finish
    About Rebecca
  17. Download the PDF
  18. Get more from the Pastel Academy

You can combine these techniques, and draw and paint with pastels all in one piece of work. The possibilities are endless.

 

Here hatching is applied over a smudged base…

Apple sketch
Light on the Water
Dartmoor Stallion
It feels like Heaven

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