About This Project
This tutorial teaches you how to create beautiful landscape paintings using soft pastels. We'll cover layering techniques, blending, and how to capture the beauty of nature through pastel art.
Step-by-Step Tutorial
- Choose your scene: Select a landscape that inspires you. You can work from a photograph or from life.
- Prepare your surface: Use sanded pastel paper or textured paper that will grip the pastel well.
- Underpainting: Lightly sketch the basic shapes and values of the scene using a neutral color pastel or charcoal.
- Layering colors: Begin with the background and work forward, layering colors to create depth. Blend with your fingers or a blending stump.
- Add midtones and shadows: Use a variety of pastel colors to add detail and emphasize shadows, which will give your landscape dimension.
- Highlight areas: Use lighter pastels, like yellow or white, to highlight areas of the scene that are hit by light.
- Refine and blend: Go back through the piece, refining details and blending to create smooth transitions between colors.
Video Tutorial
Watch and learn at your own pace: