Soft Pastel - Blog Posts

It looks like a turkey but the coloration is most definitely not a North American Wild Turkey.  The blue skin and all the other colors on this drawing are pretty accurate to the animal mount, but I was never able to come up with a Google search that could tell me what it was.

in this situation the soft pastel black I have learned to enjoy much more than I enjoy actual compressed charcoal sticks, however they do complement the charcoal pencils well.  I wish I knew exactly what variety of animals these are.

This was an early play with the pastel, I want to go back at a deer again!  Those pastels are pricey but I think I have some left.

an early pastel test for skin, not very great.  The imagery is a mashup of a Toulouse Lautrec painting of his mother, and the Mark Rothko multi-form paintings, both of which I still admire quite a bit.

I had a lot of fun with this color combination.  Using the Rembrandt brand soft pastels, I used burnt umber for the dark tone, a pale yellow ochre for the light color, and this is all on brown kraft paper.  the border is paper tape.