Personal Portrait Courses...
Pick your subject
You can choose whichever subject you like. It may be a photo you've taken or an image you've seen and loved. Just make sure there are no copyrights attached to it!
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Landscapes
Managing colour and getting to grips with techniques can work well with any subject you fancy.
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Famous portraits
You can choose photos from magazines so long as you don't take prints from your original and sell them. Portraying your idol is a great way to explore pastels.
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How many days should you do?
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How we do what we do!
Getting the colour BROWN without using any brown pastel!
As we don't use any Grey, Green or Brown chalks the colours we arrive at have to mixed up onto the paper using our limited palette of basic primary colours and those you would use in a printer. So from the photographs, you can see that we've used red as our base as the hair is a warm brown. Then placed blue on top but stronger into the shadows. The yellow ochre will calm the mid tones of the hair down but also give it a green/brown hue which will give it a more natural look. The last stage of chalk application will be placing the blacks into the negative spaces of the hair, bringing the mid tones forward and giving it some depth. Once blended, we can then work our pencil techniques on top of the chalk to bring life into the hair with minimal effort.
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