Soft Pastels by Mrs. Kanter

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5 beginning techniques

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Georgia O'Keeffe's pastel box

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Edgar Degas's pastel box

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https://www.aaronschuerr.com/

IAPS

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https://www.pastelsocietyofamerica.org/

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Types of Pastels

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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.

Hard Pastels

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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.

PanPastels

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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.

Pencil pastels

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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.

Soft pastels

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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.

Oil pastels

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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.

Paper for pastels

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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.

Paper color

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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.

5 tips

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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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Colors used

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Landscape drawings with tan paper

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Loose pastel work

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Landscape drawing with toned paper

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Materials:

4 landscape reference photos
paper taped to drawing board
pastels

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.
Do a loose light sketch with a pastel that contrasts with the paper.
Block in the large color areas with pastels (Underpainting).
Do a loose blend to take some of the graininess out of the colors.
Develop as much of the sky as possible to keep smudging to a minimum.
Block in darker shadow areas.
Refine your image by add midtones & details to the areas that require it.
Add highlights and final details, branches, small flowers in field, blades of grass, etc. that you do not want to smudge.
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.

Tree

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Tree

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Mountain

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Water

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Water

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Ocean

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https://youtu.be/aqULH5pjXWo

Sunset - pt 2

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https://youtu.be/4jUMWAEyUWk

Sunset - pt 1

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Water reflections

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Sky

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Using Alcohol underpainting

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https://youtu.be/koi2FPw88NQ

Clouds

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Sky with black paper

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landscape with grey paper

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