Steps for Landscape Pastel Drawings
- Pick your image
- Establish your color palette – use a strip of paper and draw a swatch of each color that is in your painting you are re-creating – most artists don’t work straight out of a tube of paint – they mix their colors, meaning you’ll have to mix colors as well. Once you feel you have all of your colors from your painting picked out, you need to get your color palette approved by me
- Put all of your colors in a baggie, will keep your color bag on your board.
- (Optional)Grid sections of the artwork and draw the same grid on your paper to enlarge the image onto your drawing paper. Make sure your grid is super light and done with vine charcoal or pencil
- Draw in basic shapes of the detail in your image. Impressionist paintings are very abstract and generally don’t have very many defined shapes, but you should still have some detail to draw in.
- Erase your grid lines, but leave the detail of your drawing and begin adding color.
- The finishing touch is using pastel pencils – these are only for finishing details.
- You will use spray fixative or laminate your drawing when you’re finished so the pastel doesn’t smudge after completion. If you are planning on framing your drawing please let me know that you do not want it laminated
IMPORTANT TIPS for working with pastels:
!!!!!!!IMPORTANT!!!!!!! Start at the top corner opposite of your drawing hand and work your way down and across so you don’t smear all of your hard work with your hand
Be sure to not over blend, or your colors can become muddy.
Also, don’t add to much pastel to start. Pastels are a loose medium that is pretty forgiving, but the paper can only hold so much pastel before it begins resisting the color
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