Pastel Articles & Tips
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Pastel Painting & Drawing Tips Articles
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Using Pan Pastels - No Cleaning Required!
Pan Pastel™ are a relatively new product for the pastel artist. Have you heard of them? If not, you might be surprised to learn that using pan pastels is unlike using soft pastels or oil pastels, as pan pastels aren't shaped into sticks. Instead, each pan pastel color comes in a little tablet, contained in a clear flat plastic dish with a screw-on lid. They're not applied to the paper directly like with sticks, but via applicators called 'Sofft Knives.'
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Pastel Painting Palette, What You Will Need
Before buying any pastels, have you considered the type of paintings you're going to do? Will you be painting landscapes, still life or seascapes. Or maybe abstract, portraits or animals? You see, for different topics you'll need different palettes....
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Helpful Pastel Art Tips & Techniques For Beginners
Pastels are unique and versatile because of their ability to be used as both a drawing and painting medium. They are also unique because colors are worked and blended on the paper as opposed to a palette. Whether you work with hard pastels, soft pastels, or both, the following tips will prove to be helpful....
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Introduction to Pastel Drawing Mediums
Pastels are one of the easiest mediums to work with and therefore are a very popular choice amongst artists. Pastels combine the immediacy of a drawing medium while at the same time provide the artist with a color rich, paint like environment. With Pastel drawing, there is no need to prepare your drawing surface, as pastels can be applied directly to your support. There are no harsh chemicals or mediums to be concerned about and cleanup is a snap! It is no wonder why artists adore this medium so much.
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The Pros and Cons of Using Oil Pastels
When it comes to painting with pastels, you have a choice of different types that you can use. If you are used to or have been using soft pastels, using oil pastels will open a whole new world for your creative energy. Below I've listed some of the pros and cons of how to paint using oil pastels..
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The Art of Pastel Painting
Artists have long valued the medium of pastel for its immediacy in application and fabulous colors. Pastel paintings have now also entered a time of increased interest to collectors. Traditionally used as a sketching medium, for over 100 years artists have also used pastels for finished work.
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The Top 4 Pastel Painting Techniques
There are so many painting techniques; it's difficult to focus on which one to utilize and try when you're beginning. Thus, I've created a list of the top 4 pastel painting techniques to get you started! For most artists, pastels are a starting ground by which they learn to make and mix tones of colors for different shades. You can add colors and mix them to get the shades that you are looking for. As a result if you have already worked with pastels, this article may seem really simple, but continue reading it to get updated on what could be a basic course on using pastels.
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Different techniques in the art of pastel drawing
Pastels are one of the most immediate and satisfying mediums to work in. They are, in essence, sticks of pure pigment held together with glue binding. There are different grades of pastel depending on the strength of the binding. It is essential to experiment with different degrees of hard or soft pastels if one is to understand the medium, Very different effects can be created with hard as opposed to soft pastels.
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Important Tips About Properly Framing Pastel Artwork
The beauty of paintings is magnified only when framed. Framing pastel artwork completes the masterpiece. Imagine letting a painting hang on the wall with dust falling onto it. Not framing your valuable paintings will ruin the magic of colors, and it will diminish the overall effect of your painting. If you really want to preserve your pastel artwork, then it's important to frame it. Below are three tips to consider when framing pastel artwork..
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How to Make Pastels
Making pastels is something many artists do. This is mostly a cost consideration, as art materials are expensive, but it's also a way to control more of the process. Just as photographers like to develop their own film (well, those still using film) instead of giving it to someone else, so too artists like to make their own pastels rather than buying them ready-made.
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Pastel Painting Equipment
Firstly, there are the pastels themselves. They are made from pure powdered pigment bound with a small quantity of gum binder (low quality pastels have chalk added). Pastels come in many varieties (hard, soft, sticks, pencils, etc.) but they are essentially all the same: the final choice is largely a matter of personal preference.
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What Are Pastels and Why Do People Use Them?
Pastels are a strong and also colourful way of painting. The medium itself is dry and because of its powdery surface the light reflects well. So, with pastels, they give out very intense colouring, more so than any other medium.
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Oil Pastels - Discover a World of Brilliant Color
Oil pastels are a fairly new art medium. In the mid 1920's, the first soft pastel was developed. Called Cray-pas, this soft pastel was considered an upgrade from crayons. It wasn't until 1947, upon the request of the artists Pablo Picasso and Henri Goetz, the materials manufacturer Sennelier set about to create a soft, artists' quality pastel.
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An Introduction to Pastel Drawing and Painting
Pastels are a wonderful medium to work with. If you are used to painting in wet mediums like oils and acrylics then you should give pastels a try. They are a very refreshing and enjoyable approach to creating art. This article will introduce you to the various pastel mediums that are available as well as touch on a few pastel panting and drawing techniques that you can incorporate into your next work of art.
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Painting with pastels
Pastel as an art medium for drawing has some advantages. This article serves to introduce the basics of pastel drawing and painting.
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Care, Matting, and Framing Pastel Paintings
One of the reasons pastel paintings and drawings are so beautifully unique is the quality of the pure color particles and how these catch and refract light. The pastel medium is a pure pigment applied to a heavy paper, specially textured board, or cloth support.