Pastel Portrait

I need a portrait demo completed in oil and pastel for the "1st Annual SRF Visual Arts Boot Camp", June 22nd to June 24th.

This demo is being drawn on a 16 x 20" masonite board, primed and on the wrong side so I have the roughness of the surface to hold the pastel.

I'm having fun doing the pastel demo quickly.

Step 1:  Basic drawing to start.  Really quickly rubbed some soft charcoal on the board to create the dark value.

Step 2:  Brushed the charcoal across the white surface to tone the skin to gray.

Step 3:  Corrected the background colour by adding orange pastel.  (It works to make brown.) 



















Step 4:  Didn't like the left hand side.  It was full of pastel so instead of adding more I used varsol and a brush to paint the colour into one dark value, pushing it into the tooth of the board which allows me to apply more on top.  Similar to a trick in colour pencils.

 It looks more 3 dimensional now.  :)

Step 5:  Laying in colour.

More to come...

Pam