Soft Pastel Chalk Paintings

There is no right or wrong way.

Soft pastel chalk paintings.

Each of these pastel techniques can be used on their own or combined to produce a pastel painting. Pastel chalk looks particularly impressive when used on coloured paper as the surface can then actually be incorporated in the picture. As with so many things in painting it comes down to what you enjoy doing with your pastels. Chalk pastels are enriched with water.

Remember to try each pastel technique with different pastels hard semi soft and soft as each gives a slightly different result as will the various pastel brands. There is a major fundamental difference between chalk pastels and soft pastels. The binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation the color effect of pastels is closer to the natural dry pigments than that. This is a simple landscape drawing for beginner s level with soft pastels.

When buying their art supplies for the first time some usually end up purchasing chalk pastels. Ingres velour paper sansfix pastel card etc. The soft pastel drawing. There are many different special pastel papers available e g.

This is a landscape painting. ˈ p æ s t əl us. Are soft pastels the same as chalk pastels. Painting surface for pastel chalk painting.

P æ ˈ s t ɛ l is an art medium in the form of a stick consisting of powdered pigment and a binder the pigments used in pastels are similar to those used to produce some other colored visual arts media such as oil paints. Rough paper is most suitable for use with soft pastel chalks.