Artist's Palette - AU (2020-03)

demonstration

Using pastels broken into thirds, I quickly laid in sky
colours with side-strokes of the pastels in colours ranging
from dark Burnt Siennas through to touches of Gold and
Lemon Yellow. The pastels blended themselves on the
surface with the use of a few layers. As always, I was more
concerned with finding a pastel of the correct tone and hue,
rather than which brand (softness) of pastel I was using.
I loosely filled in the distant elephants in shades of
raw and burnt umber. Overall they remained cooler and
less detailed – further away – than the main elephant.
I placed three tones on the main elephant to
establish her form: Light Grey, mid-tone Burnt
Umber and Art Spectrum ‘Bordeaux’ for a lively,
warm, dark crimson shadow colour. I left plenty
of the underlying paper showing through.

STEP THREE

Next came some more Burnt Siennas and creamy tones
for the foreground, with a touch of green to add some life.
Notice how the cast shadows from the elephant are the same
colour as her form shadows, connecting her to the ground.

STEP FOuR

Now that the paper was covered, I went back and added
refinements to the whole piece – such as strokes of

MATERIALS

• Art Spectrum Colourfix Paper – Burgundy colour.


• Variety of Soft Pastels: Winsor & Newton,
  Art Spectrum, Rembrandt and Schmincke.


• Pastel Pencils – Black and White.


• Pastel erasing tool.


• Kneadable eraser.


• Workable matt fixative.

STEP ONE

STEP TWO

STEP THREE