Category: Soft Pastels

Talisker Distillery

I was busy yesterday putting together my applications for Portrait and Landscaoe Artist Of The Year yesterday. The PAOTY deadline isn’t until 7...

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The M2

It's another soft pastel landscape today. After yesterday's success, I thought I'd have another go while my head was still buzzing with Robert...

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Islay Beach Cottage

After reading the Robert Brindley book, I was itching to get started on a new soft pastel painting. I picked out a view of a cottage for rent on...

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Long Hot Summer Night

This is another painting that's been brewing for a while. If I don't look at the clouds and see naked women, what else is there to see? Well,...

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The Tryst

I had another go at a sky painting in soft pastels today but I'm already veering off the beaten path by going for a cloud formation that looks like...

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Ansleigh In Soft Pastel

I thought I'd better have a go at a figure with soft pastels today. I've used them for a landscape and a portrait, so only fair that they should be...

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Rupert Thomson

Back to painting today and I've had my first go at a portrait using the soft pastels. Today's subject was the author Rupert Thomson. I started...

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First View Of Queendown Warren

Here's my first ever painting using the soft pastels. Because I wasn't expecting to be able to capture much detail, I picked a pretty plain view...

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Soft Pastel Swatches

The swatching continues with the soft pastels. As I said before I have a set of 28 portrait colours, a set of 14 cloudy sky colours and a set of 14...

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2024 Birthday Stash 2: New Media

And here's the second post of birthday stash. Here's what we have: There are loads of soft pastels. I’ve never used these before but, if...

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