Part II -Pastel Painting Demonstration on Mounted, Textured Newspaper

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Description

Steve explores the techniques of pastel painting on a vintage Russian newspaper page mounted to a foam core support. The textured newspaper provides a very receptive surface for the pastel. As well as demonstrating pastel technique Steve discusses his thought processes regarding composition, the use of color, value, line, simplification of form and many other artistic considerations.

Index

00:00:05 - Begin with the buildings, combining references to create your imagery, activating interest with color, refining detail, deciding what to keep, finding a color pattern

00:13:38 - Working on a design for the fences

00:17:11 - Adding the hunter and dog, how the size was determined and incorporated into the piece, creating the hunter from multiple references, adjusting the drawing, achieving simplicity

00:28:31 - Blocking in color in the man and dog, finding the right color combination

00:47:09 - Returning to the portrait of the young man, refining the portrait