The Artist - UK (2021-02)

40 artistFebruary 2021 http://www.painters-online.co.uk

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u DETAIL C

Using the side of a light

blue/purple pastel I blocked

in some of the lighter

aspects of the clouds

t DETAIL B

With a light pink pastel

I started to establish

some of the warm

edges along the main

cloud lines

p STAGE SEVEN

I used a paper torchon stick to

help with the blending process

• this presses the pastel into the
  paper surface

p STAGE SIX

I began the pastel work. Using the side of a lovely dark blue pastel I started to

block in the darkest areas of the top clouds. You will notice in this closeup that

the tooth of the paper is very evident. When I first started doing pastel work on

watercolour paper I tended to use a Rough surface but found I had to use a lot of

pastel before the colours would ‘move together’ whilst trying to blend them.

I now use a Not surface as I can blend more quickly

t STAGE EIGHT

By now I had built up some

lovely dark blue-grey cloud

formations, working down

with mixes of green/grey,

light purple and soft orange.

Notice at this stage I was

keeping away from all the

light passages as I find that

light pastel over dark works

extremely well, unlike dark

over light, which never seems

to work for me