http://www.artinstructionblog.com/use-pastels-to-enhance-your-command-of-colors-by-karl-sultana Free art lessons & tips on a variety of different mediums including oil painting,watercolor,acrylics and more! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:28:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/use-pastels-to-enhance-your-command-of-colors-by-karl-sultana/comment-page-1#comment-107593 Anonymous Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:03:31 +0000 http://www.artinstructionblog.com/use-pastels-to-enhance-your-command-of-colors-by-karl-sultana#comment-107593 For gestural lines and contours, draw with the end of the pastel, wielding it as you would a pen or pencil. Use broad, relaxed strokes employing your whole arm, to achieve expression, and bear down more firmly to alter the thickness of you lines. For gestural lines and contours, draw with the end of the pastel, wielding it as you would a pen or pencil. Use broad, relaxed strokes employing your whole arm, to achieve expression, and bear down more firmly to alter the thickness of you lines.

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