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Course Detail

What will I learn in each course? 

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My First Pastel

This is a course for those totally new to pastel. Taking you step by step through a simple bird painting using a small number of pastels. Just a taste of how pastels work. When you complete this course and get obsessed with pastels! You will receive a bonus discount on the

Pastel for Beginners course. 

Pastel for Beginners

Ready to learn everything you need to know about pastels?

What paper do I choose?

What is different about all these pastel brands?  Leading you step by step through 3 demos using a variety of techniques including the bird from "My First Pastel" course. 

and two landscapes.  

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Seascapes

Seascapes are one of my favourite subjects.  This course leads you through 3 step by step paintings of

  • A Simple wave,

  • Shallow sand

  • and underpainting techniques. 

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Each of the 3 modules will cover a certain aspect of painting seascapes with each lesson building on the last. Suitable for all levels as we start at the very beginning. 

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Heart of Colour

Colour is the heart of painting for all artists. This course leads through:

  • Mixing colour using pastels,

  • Terminology of colour like chroma, temperature and hue bias (what's that?!).

  • Controlling green in the landscape.

  • using paper colour,

  • underpainting for great effects

  • and limiting your palette.

So much information to get you to the next level of using colour to tell your story. 

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