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The Artery Art Shop and Classes on Instagram: "Soft/chalk pastels are a great way to enhance a watercolour that may have ended up a bit too dark or muddy. It does make it mixed media, but if it gets you the right effects, then that is great! Would you use pastels on top of watercolour?"

Use these soft pastel techniques to create a number of different marks, textures and effects and get the best results from your artwork.

'Tormented Sky' 5x7 pastel ©Karen Margulis sold Making mud is easy. It usually happens when we don't want it. All of the sudden that fresh beautiful color turns dull and muddy....dirty looking color. Yuck. It is frustrating and we work hard to avoid it. Sometimes it is good to make mud! My favorite place to mix up some muddy color is in my clouds. Whether they are stormy tormented clouds or just the shadows in white clouds, we need to use gray. But I really don't like to use gray. I have…

Chalk pastels are one of the best mediums to use if you are just learning how to paint. The medium has a painter- like quality very similar to brush strokes on a canvas. This post will cover everything you need to know about Chalk Pastels for Beginners, the differences in chalk pastel brands and how to finish a chalk pastel drawing!

Karen Margulis is an award winning pastel artist who loves to share tips and techniques to help you create stronger paintings. In this video Karen demonstrates how to paint a beautiful light filled sky and clouds that look natural and full of color.

This page from The Art of Pastel: Discover techniques for creating beautiful works of art in pastel contains 9 different techniques for working with oil pastels. Click on this page from The Art of Pastel to read about the different...

Art Room on Instagram: "Exploring the art of creating stunning skies — watch the magic unfold! 🌄🖍️🌈 #sun #red #mountains #tuto #landscape #Idraw #colors #pastel #nature #sky #pastelart #artroom"