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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.

 

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.

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PASTEL PENCIL BASICS     PASTEL PENCIL BRANDS      

PASTEL PENCIL SURFACES      

PASTEL PENCIL TECHNIQUES

PASTEL PENCIL BASICS     PASTEL PENCIL BRANDS      

PASTEL PENCIL SURFACES      PASTEL PENCIL TECHNIQUES