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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, Cretacolour 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.

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

And one that looks at the main techniques

DEMONSTRATIONS  -  There is a small step by step of a still life in this section which shows basic methods.  

There is also a more advanced step by step in the Mixed Media section showing the underpainting development in Pastel Pencil of a view at the Abbey of Bellapais, near Kyrenia, in Northern Cyprus.  

There is also one of the Underpainting method in ‘Cottage Entrance’ - in the same section

Annecy Reflections Detailed Step by Step  on two long pages

a large step by step example of a Landscape subject in Pastel Pencils has been posted here with detailed explanations of the stages and the reasons for the actions.  

This exercise was completed for Caran d’Ache as a commission, and the notes were requested to accompany their product publicity.  

The pencils and pastel sticks used were from the pre-production line and were not the finished product, so no colour names were available at the time the picture was completed.

The new Caran d’Ache line includes 84 colours and these will be sold in sets of the full colour range, smaller collections, and also smaller dedicated sets of 20 Landscape colours and of 20 Portrait colours.  The Landscape and Portrait sets will have 20 pencils and 20 cubes in the boxes.

I have no other information on the sets or expected retail prices at the time of writing ( January 2012 )

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PASTEL PENCIL BASICS     PASTEL PENCIL BRANDS      

PASTEL PENCIL SURFACES      

PASTEL PENCIL TECHNIQUES

Step by Step Exercise - ANNECY REFLECTIONS

Latest revision January 2012