Almost 200 PAGES of information for Beginners and Improvers to help you develop your skills

The addition of more sections means that this space will be required.

The small index facility that was here has been replaced by a more comprehensive set of links on the site pages

PETER WEATHERILL

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Pastel Pencils

 

Often regarded by artists who use the traditional wax or oil based coloured pencils

as the messy variety of CP.

but

To artists who are fans of pastels, they are the clean variety of pastels.

 

You can’t win !

 

This section looks at the brands that are available on the European market, how they differ,

What the ranges are, and to point up any major advantages and disadvantages.

Like the rest of this site, we have no sponsorship and tell it how we see it.

 

We also include the pastel sticks produced by the pastel pencil manufacturers, but we do not look at soft pastels and pastel sticks produced by other manufacturers.  We have to draw the line somewhere !

It could be argued that the sticks we do include are not pencils.

The point of including them is that the content of the sticks from people like Faber-Castell and Derwent etc,

is identical to the pastel content in the pencil ranges and of equivalent hardness.  

The sticks can therefore be readily used to produce the base layers of a picture and detail worked over the top with pastel pencils.  After fixing with a spray, the pastel pencil surface will also take final detailed working with CP - but that will be covered in more detail in the Mixed Media section ( ‘with other media’) at a later date.

 

There is also a section included which looks at different surfaces suitable for pastel

And one that looks at the main techniques

This Pastel Pencil section of the site

Is NEW as at 10th February 2010