Marion Boddy-Evans is an About.com Painting Guide. Here she presents a well thought-out list of supplies every artist needs for free beginner pastel lessons online.
Artist Robert Sloan teaches beginner pastel lessons online, including basic techniques, beginning with making marks. There are all kinds of marks you can make using pastels to indicate a variety of rough and smooth textures.
Oil pastels and chalk pastels present different challenges for artists taking beginner pastel lessons online. Read this helpful article to learn solutions for crumb control, what to do when your sticks or applied colors look muddy from blending, and when colors won't seem to do what you want them to.
Homeschooler Barb of Harmony Arts offers beginner pastel lessons online, starting with this 7:32 YouTube video that's very easy to understand. In this video, Barb teaches viewers how to paint an adorable birdhouse with chalk pastels.
Pastel artist Carly Clements demonstrates oil pastel techniques while creating a landscape in the beginner pastel lesson online. She includes instructions for blending and detailing, and shows how to successfully achieve water reflection.
My girls used to use pastels in school for art. They turned out some awesome projects.
I wish I was artistic too. Thanks for sharing this list.
I wish I was artistic. You have such helpful lists.
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