Before starting with pastels, there are several techniques that you need to understand. It is important that you understand and practice these techniques in order to see the effect they have on the images you use pastel colors. Please take a moment to think about oil painters in history, who painted those stunning images that you admire. Is it from those pictures that you have drawn is your inspiration? Then there is the more you need to know! For starters, have you ever seen the oil painting in progress? If not, then you will be surprised to know that the oil on canvas of time, messy, and complicated process. layers that are added to give a gap of at least one day before applying the next layer. Also, the product is more complex because of turpentine to wash should be done after each session. And to dry, finished painting will be almost a year!
On the contrary, you have crayons. They are very simple and fast. For starters, pastels May not be very clean. However, you can easily clean with a vacuum cleaner. This is a simple task that saves the smell of turpentine that prevails for a few days. The advantages of using pastels are a good choice for medium-busy people to learn from. In every available space at home, you can easily spread out and set up your material. If you get only half an hour or so a day on the job, you can easily walk without worrying about paint drying out or getting a job was destroyed. This allows you all the time that you need to fulfill your masterpiece.
Your short pastel painting sessions can be more efficient and fast when you implement the following 5 techniques:
1 Use only the artists, charcoal, hard pastel crayons or pencils to sketch out your design.
Make sure you get the elements of your artistic work and relational space and distance between them on the way you want it to be before you begin.
2 Sweeping of the pastel sticks
By sweeping the side of the surface that will allow you to paint large areas quickly. You can add effects to pictures of different pressure in different places.
3 Use paper stump to blend.
Blending, smoothing and smearing the paint. Using this technique in combination with different colors, you can create many variations of color and tone. This technique can also be used to soften color transitions and remove unwanted visible line of attack.
4 Withdrawal of different colors.
can produce interesting effects by dragging the different colored pastel sticks in a certain area. This technique is called scumbling. broken color effect produced by scumbling is effective in representing the atmospheric haze, fog, fabric textures, light shaft, and distal elements in the landscape. However, scumbling is unpredictable when you first start with pastels, so you'll have to experiment with it.
5 Layering several different colors.
layering different colors one on top of the other can be used to represent skin tones. It is important that the layer of dark to light. If it stops receiving surface of pigment, you can restore your tooth to the surface using a fixative.
Now you can easily decide whether to continue to use oil paints, or want to try to start the pastels. ability to create imaginative, pastel masterpiece are endless!