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Beach/Ocean Scene in Soft Pastels Tutorial - Melissa Mancuso Art

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How To Draw STORM With Soft Pastel on Black Paper

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Materials:

4 landscape reference photos

paper taped to drawing board

pastels

1. 2 sketches of different compositions for your landscape using the reference photos - Use Rule of 3rds. Horizon line should be placed near one of the horizontal lines of the rule of 3rds. Put your focal point on or near one of the crossed areas of the lines of the Rule of 3rds.

2. Do a loose light sketch with a pastel that contrasts with the paper.

3. Block in the large color areas with pastels (Underpainting).

4. Do a loose blend to take some of the graininess out of the colors.

5. Develop as much of the sky as possible to keep smudging to a minimum.

6. Block in darker shadow areas.

7. Refine your image by add midtones & details to the areas that require it.

8. Add highlights and final details, branches, small flowers in field, blades of grass, etc. that you do not want to smudge.

9. Post final work to the TURN IN tab under your name.

Watch the videos in the video library for specific information on parts of a landscape.

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https://www.aaronschuerr.com/

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https://www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org/

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MEMBERSHIP

The Pastel Society of America has over 1,000 artist members throughout the US and abroad. There are three levels of juried membership: Associate, Signature, and Master Pastelist. The membership committee confers either Associate or Signature status to accepted applications. At any time during membership, an Associate Member may apply for Signature status through the jurying system. In an alternative route, an Associate Member in good standing automatically receives Signature status after being accepted in three PSA annual exhibitions, which need not be consecutive. As a non-member accepted to the Annual for the first time, your acceptance counts toward your elevation to Signature status, provided you apply for Associate Membership. Master Pastelist status is conferred when a member in good standing accumulates three PSA annual exhibition awards. PSA annual exhibition awards are juried by a New York or national art professional, such as a curator or museum director.
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Pastel Society of America | Headquartered at the National Arts Club, NYC

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The Pastel Society of America has over 1,000 artist members throughout the US and abroad. There are three levels of juried membership: Associate, Signature, and Master Pastelist. The membership committee confers either Associate or Signature status to accepted applications. At any time during membership, an Associate Member may apply for Signature status through the jurying system.

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Try a Simple Pastel Painting in 20 Minutes. It's Playtime!

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IAPS - International Association of Pastel Societies

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International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) - Representing pastel societies uniting in a common cause - to demonstrate the validity and quality of pastel fine art around the world.

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Drawing & Painting - The Virtual Instructor

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Pastel Drawing Lesson - Simple Landscape

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1. Work with the tip of your pastel when putting in highlights or when you want sharp detailed lines.

2. Use the side of the stick when you want broad passages of color that almost look like actual brushstrokes.

3. Blending with your fingertip is like magic. Two hatches of color come together in a soft puff of color. It can look like a cloud formation — that’s how highly blended the end result can be.

4. Draw lines over passages of blending to create depth and texture.

5. Scumble color over color if you want more texture and visual variance on your surface than you would if you layered them and blended them.

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There are five main types of pastels: soft, PanPastel, hard, pencil, and oil. They are all essentially pigment in stick form (or pans), but they differ in how they're bound together.

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Hard Pastels – are drawing sticks made of pigment, water and chalk. Hard pastels create sharp, bright lines on light and dark papers. Some hard pastels can be sharpened, although they can't hold a fine point like a pencil.
Conte is NOT a hard pastel - Conte has more of a wax content than pastel does.

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PanPastels - are professional artists' quality soft pastel colors packed in a unique pan format (cake-like). Their special qualities mean that artists can blend and apply pastel (dry) color like paint for the first time. You can use PanPastel for painting, drawing and mixed media.

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Pastel pencils are pastel material encased within a wooden shaft. Because they are in pencil form, they can be easily sharpened to a point and used to develop intricate details in a drawing. Colors can still be be layered, blended, and developed just as they would in a traditional soft pastel painting.

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Soft pastels are not chalks. They usually don't contain chalk and are nothing like blackboard or pavement chalks, save for the shape and feel. Just like any other artists quality art material, soft pastels are made up of pigment and a binder to keep it in a certain shape.

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Oil pastels come in a crayon or stick form and are made of pigments combined with a binder. The binder is a mixture of waxes and mineral oils, so you get a type of soft and slightly somewhat greasy stick that does not dry.

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The surface of the paper is very important for pastels. Pastels can be used on almost any surface as long as there is enough tooth for the pastels to grip. Textured paper is the most popular surface for pastels, but you can also use boards, canvas, and even sandpaper.

The degree of tooth (texture) can also affect certain types of techniques, such as layering, detail work, and blending. The amount of tooth determines how many layers of pastel can be applied. If the tooth is shallow, it may be filled by a single layer of pastel and when you try to add another layer on top, there won't be any tooth left for it to grip.

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The color of paper is frequently used by pastel artists to create a number of subtle effects. You can select paper that harmonizes with your pastel colors and has the effect of unifying the artwork. Or you can purposely contrast the paper color with the pastels to create interesting atmospheric moods when the paper shows through the pastels.

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The charcoal drawing on the Sansfix paper. You can see that the darkness of the charcoal and the paper are very close.

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The first layers of light, middle, and dark values. The black coming through affects the lightness of the colors – making them seem darker than they are.

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More pastel added to get rid of the black speckles of the paper coming through especially in the light value areas. Highlights on tinsel bits added.

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More refining especially of the boa and also around the spiky bits of the headband.

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Green was added to enhance the pinkness of the boa. It was also used it in other parts of the piece to make sure there was colour harmony. 

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https://youtu.be/aqULH5pjXWo

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How to paint sea in soft pastels | Kate Amedeo

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Drawing & Painting - The Virtual Instructor

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Paint Trees Not Leaves! Learn How to Paint More Suggestive Trees

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Pastel Painting | Time-lapse | Rocks on the mountain | 4K60fps

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Three Tips for Painting Water with Pastel: Marsh Demo

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How to draw Reflections on the water with soft pastels 🎨 LANDSCAPES

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Pastel Painting Lesson: How to Paint a Beautiful Sky and Clouds with Pastels

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https://youtu.be/4jUMWAEyUWk

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https://youtu.be/koi2FPw88NQ

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Keep Your Pastel Painting Fresh with an Alcohol Underpainting!