Soft Pastel Courses and Tutorials
Each month we’ll have a hand picked selection of brand new and exclusive online trainings, workshops, PDF guides and live Q&A’s.
We’ll make sure there’s a range of tuition materials to suit all experience levels – from absolute pastel beginners to professional artists. There’s bound to be something for everyone every month.
Beginner’s Path
Our recommended path for beginner's, bringing together various Pastel Academy courses covering a range of topics and styles.
Intermediate Path
If you've completed the Beginner's path, the Intermediate Path is the next step with a more advanced selection of courses.
Advanced Path
If you've got a good grip on the foundational pastelling skills, this path takes you through the more advanced courses at the Pastel Academy.
6 Month Colour Theory with Cathy Pearce
In this tutorial I shall show you how to make your own colour wheel, learning about Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colours, along with Complimentary Pairs and Individual Colours.
Drawing From Woodland Scenes with Caitlin Heslop
In this tutorial, Caitlin will guide you through different approaches to ‘Drawing from Woodland Scenes’.
Winter Sunrise With Sparkles with Lucy Brangwin
This tutorial will go through step by step how I created this lake scene with added sparkles, some distant mountains…
Still Life For Beginners with Caitlin Heslop
In this tutorial Caitlin Heslop, one of our Associate Artists, talks you through a Still Life for Beginners tutorial.
Snow Is White, Isn’t it? with Julie Ford
Snow is such a challenging subject to paint! When we approach a subject with snow in it, we know what we are trying to achieve but as soon as we put white on the page, we lose all interest and definition. So why is this?
Ocean Shapes and Coastal Forms with Robert Dutton
Robert Dutton shows how to develop a more abstract direction to pastel painting as he explores the inspiring wild and…
Made For The Mountains with Robert Dutton
Exploring white, grey and black Unison Colours and contrasting colours palettes, Associate Artist Robert Dutton explains why Unison Colour pastels…
Braiding Light with Tracey Maras
The sky is blue and clouds are fluffy balls of cotton. This notion follows us from our childhood and unfortunately,…
Winter Reflections with Lucy Brangwin
This is a warm wintery scene which uses a little finger blending but involves more pastel on top of pastel…
Drawing From Still Life with Caitlin Heslop
In this tutorial Associate Artist, Caitlin Heslop, will talk you through how to draw from a still life set up.
Create A Semi Abstract Artwork Using Unison Colour Soft Pastels, with Alison Berrett
Learn to use Unison Colour pastels with water and gain confidence in working quickly and spontaneously from a sketch or colour study of your own or a photo.
Let Your Creativity Flow! with Robert Dutton
Robert Dutton shows you how to create shimmering, sparkling and flowing waters with unique expressive and atmospheric effects with Unison Colour pastels and mixed media in exciting combinations.
Winter Homestead with Tracey Maras
Painting a Twilight Snow Scene on Textured Ground.
Bold And Playful Still Life with Amy Shuckburgh
How to do a still life in a loose, energetic, vivid style.
Red Sky At Night Workshop with Sandra Orme
Join Sandra for a dramatic pastel sky workshop exploring a wonderfully vibrant evening sunset.
5 Day Pastel Challenge: Explore An Evocative Evening Sky with Sandra Orme
This 5 day pastel challenge, with award winning pastel artist Sandra Orme, will take you through creating beautiful clouds in an evening sky using Unison Colour Pastels ‘Sky’ set on Pastel Mat paper.
How To Compose And Paint A Successful Triptych with Lucy Brangwin
This lesson will explain and show the basics in painting a triptych and sizing up your art to a large scale.
Jellyfish with Meral Altilar
Paint a beautiful vibrant Jellyfish with Meral.
Sgraffito with Cathy Pearce
Cathy shows you a particular way of scratching the surface of Clairefontaine Pastelmat with a wooden golf tee or mini barbecue stick before laying down pastel.
Showing Pastels in a Commercial Gallery: Notes from the Inside with Rhonda Abrams
Rhonda shares her experience of having an art show in a commercial gallery.