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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

Colours can also be blended by smudging and softening, to produce a smooth and gradual blend. Your fingers are the perfect tool for smudging.

This is a great techniques for skies, soft textures, or to depict smooth surfaces.

 

Use broad strokes laying the pastel on its side

Smudge and blend softly with your fingers

Examples

All that Glitters
Jub Jub

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