Drawing Flowers in Pastel by Margaret Evans
In the following step by step pastel drawing demonstration, Margaret Evans demonstrates, in easy to follow steps, how to draw flowers. This is more of an impressionist style drawing than anything else, as Margaret is not interested in capturing every detail. Just a very colorful and loose impression of her subject.
She uses a bouquet of flowers for her subject. Her goal is to create a colorful and fleeting impression of the flowers instead of an accurate reproduction. The results are something quite beautiful and well worth watching. This is a 3 part pastel drawing demo, so you will need to set apart some time to finish watching these videos. I do hope you enjoy and learn a great deal about still life drawing using pastels.
Drawing Flowers With Pastels Part 1
Blick Lessons : Mini Monets – Pastel Drawing Technique Using Shrink Wrap
This is a great lesson from Blick Art Materials called “Mini Monets”. The instructor in the pastel drawing video below, teaches us how to create mini impressionist paintings using a material that you normally would not use with fine art work. This technique involves pastels, shrink wrap and baking. I told you it was unconventional, but the results are very interesting.
The artist begins with a reference image. Using masking tape, she secures the shrink wrap over the reference image. Using her pastels, she then draws over the reference image onto the shrink wrap using an optical blending technique. She then bakes the shrink wrap, which will then obviously shrink the image to create the desired effect that you can learn more about by watching the video below.
Blick Lesson: Mini Monets
Pastel Drawing Techniques : Pastel Drawing Complimentary Colors
Complimentary colors in a pastel drawing will help foreground objects pop. Learn how to utilize complimentary colors with tips from a professional artist in this free instructional art video.
Pastel Drawing Techniques : Pastel Drawing Contrast & Depth
Using contrast in a pastel drawing will create depth between the objects you are rendering. Learn how to create depth using contrast with tips from a professional artist in this free instructional art video.
Get Started in Pastels: Deborah Secor Paints the Landscape
From ArtistsNetwork.TV: Deborah Secor walks you through the essentials of the pastels—different brands, useful strokes, papers and blending tools—and then shows how to cut, mount and tone your paper. She demonstrates how to use the medium to paint a landscape—from first sketch to first layers of pastel—providing plenty of tips on composition and value along the way.
Unusual soft pastel techniques by Tim Fisher
Pastel Drawing Techniques : Pastel Drawing Completion
A pastel drawing is complete solely at the discretion of the artist. Learn about the artistic process of completion with tips from a professional artist in this free instructional art video.
Pastel portrait by Gerard Mineo
Free Art Lesson – Luana Winner – Pastel Grapes
Pastel Painting Lessons : How the Brain Processes Color
Find out how color is perceived and how the artist can use color in pastel paintings in this free video.
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