Category Archives: Pastel painting
Pastels with Les Darlow
Les Darlow is an artist, tutor and demonstrator from Laycock near Keighley. He specialises in pastel landscapes. His paintings can be viewed on his website > www.lesdarlow.com/ .
There are also links to youtube videos showing him working.
His first demonstration was a sea landscape in pan pastel.
His second painting was of sea and cliffs.
He made an underpainting in ink and finished with pastels.
Lucia Smith Pastel Workshop
Lucia Smith gave a demonstration of landscape painting in chalk pastel.
Chalk pastels
Unfinished painting at the end of the demonstration
Members’ paintings at the end of the workshop
David Newbould Demonstration
David Newbould gave a pastel demonstration of two old men
David Newbould’s Drawings and Paintings
Robert Dutton Pastel Demo 2016
Robert Dutton gave a chalk pastel demonstration to Farsley Art Club. He used Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper, charcoal and various soft and hard chalk pastels.
He worked from a photograph of a mill town in a valley. He started by establishing the positions of the elements in the scene using charcoal in loose strokes. He smudged the charcoal in the sky and town area.
Robert added colour with browns and greens, again in a loose manner.
He added details into the buildings with a hard eraser.
He added further colours.
Part completed painting at the end of the demonstration.
Sample paintings by Robert Dutton
Cath Inglis Pastel Workshop 2016
Demonstration by Cath Inglis
Result of quick demonstration
Cath Inglis – Sample paintings
Members’ Workshop – Review of Paintings
Members’ Workshop – Paintings in Progress
Lucia Smith demonstration 2016
Demonstration by Lucia Smith of dales landscape in soft pastel
http://www.luciasmith.co.uk
Landscapes need planning to achieve a better balance than the source sketches or photographs.
Soft chalk pastels
Lucia teaching how to apply dark and light blue soft pastel on Art Spectrum pastel paper
Lucia applying sky colours to card prepared with Colourfix grey primer applied over acrylic underpainting.
Parts of sky, clouds and grass on demonstration painting
Some completed pastel paintings by Lucia Smith
David Newbould pastel demo 2014
Ink drawing using cotton bud
Painting with chalk pastel
Pastel detail
Finished demonstration painting
Farsley Art Club 