Leisure Painter — June 2017

a slightly harder pastel. The pastel

catches the rough, tiny raised surface,

which helps to create textures. If you

fill it with too much soft pastel,

however, it will be hard to maintain

that texture.

Being a mixed-media paper, it will

allow almost anything to be used on it,

including charcoal, ink, dyes, acrylics,

pastels, oil pastels and watercolour. You

can scratch into the paper with a blade

to remove the surface primer, which

will reveal the white paper underneath.

It is worth taking a little time to get

to know your pastels and papers by

experimenting on a small piece, just

to see how many layers you can

build, how it blends, and how the

different hardness of pastels react

on the paper. LP

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Demonstration

Sunset Adventures

Distant Light, pastel on Canson

Mi-Teintes Touch paper, 17^3 ⁄ 4 x 201 ⁄ 2 in.

(45x52cm). This painting was inspired

by light. Look at the texture in the

clouds, easily achieved on the Mi-

Teintes Touch paper. Remember that

clouds have hard and soft edges.

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Youwillneed

nCanson

Mi-Teintes

Touchpaper in

sky blue or grey

173 ⁄ 4 x 201 ⁄ 2 in.

(45x52cm)

nSoft pastels

lJackson’s Red Box

soft pastels (see

above) plus some

Unison pastels

tA black and white photograph of the finished image (page 45) showing tonal variances.

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