How Pastels Art Can Work For You

By Paula Barron


If you don't think much of pastels art work, you should really give it another look, because there are a lot of ways in which this media can be effective. People look at this kind of art just as a form of coloring in and don't take it too seriously. However, it goes deeper than that.

If you look at a pastel, you may think that there is not a lot that you can do with this, but you will be surprised at just what you can get out of a few basic colors. A lot of people are selling beautiful black and white drawing from pastels. This is often better because it is so simple and that makes it better.

You can create an object or make a scene come to life just by using the pastels in a certain way. Very often it is up to the artist how they use it, so if you are saying that this is not something that is working out, you have to persevere. Perhaps it would be a good idea to learn from a professional.

Take yourself off to a field where you can draw a row of tree or a certain landscape that appeals to you and you will start to get the feel for it. When you do this, remember to go equipped with a bottle of hair spray because this will prevent the pastels from smudging. There are special tools and equipment that you can buy for this.

Some of the things that you will see include the way you hold the pencil. If you put more pressure on it, then it will obviously become more dramatic. If you want a landscape of a couple of trees in a field, for example just using a black pencil you may not think that this is possible, but you would be wrong.

You can create some great effects if you add oils with your pastels, but often if you overdo this you can lose the effect and all you are going to see are the oils. The reason why you want to do this, is to create some texture. This is great for modern or contemporary art because you need texture for this.

When you first start off, you may wonder how a simple pencil can make any difference, but as you start to use it in different angle, put more pressure on it, you will soon start to see this come to life. There is a lot you can do with these unique pencils which are different from any other type of pencil or paint brush and you will see that when you start to work with them. It will do you a lot of god to have a couple of lessons before you get started as well.

At the end of the day, you have to experiment with pastels art work. This doesn't come overnight so you have to be patient. It is something that many artists have been successful with, but they persevered with it as well. The most important thing is that you have fun with this medium whilst you are at work.




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