Demo: Oil and Dry Pastels on Tracing Paper
Lesson 6 from: Getting Started with PastelsMary Jane Begin
Demo: Oil and Dry Pastels on Tracing Paper
Lesson 6 from: Getting Started with PastelsMary Jane Begin
Lesson Info
6. Demo: Oil and Dry Pastels on Tracing Paper
Lessons
Class Introduction
06:15 2Colors and Types of Pastels
05:20 3Demo: Blending Pastels
12:23 4Demo: Surfaces and Papers For Pastels
10:55 5Demo: Layer Pastels on Smooth Bristol Paper
07:20 6Demo: Oil and Dry Pastels on Tracing Paper
04:29 7Demo: Colored Paper With Pastels
03:22 8Demo: Pastels on Premium Mounted Boards
05:03Lesson Info
Demo: Oil and Dry Pastels on Tracing Paper
This is a layout bond paper, so it's nice, but it's also what I would call a simple, simple sketch tool. It's not something that's gonna be a super fancy paper for you to use. And you can see, look at the value of it, it's super light. It's such a thin paper that it takes the color, but it softens it and makes it so much lighter. Now with this not so much, but it also has a lot of texture. You can see this color is, it almost looks like crayon, it creates this sort of stone like texture. Kinda neat, but I would only do rough sketches with this because it's so delicate, it's not gonna last too long, could tear really easily, and it doesn't seem to hold the pigment particularly well. But it's a great sketching paper, this is just layout bond paper, it's also by Strathmore. So we have some other kind of funky and interesting surfaces. I wanna show you something that's really an interesting surface that I think is a fairly new type of paper. But before we get to that, I wanna show you a ki...
nd of classic paper, which is like the one I used before, that's the Bristol, and again, this is not smooth, this is just regular Bristol. It has that heft, it's 100 pound, it's a good paper for finishes. It's very similar to the other one that I used, so I don't have to demo on that. Now there's two types of tracing paper that one could again use as a tool for doing pastel, but it's not necessarily again what you would use for finish. This is called tracing paper, it's just Blick's tracing paper, and it's like newsprint, but you can see through it. So it's kind of a cool tool for testing different things and then looking at things underneath the colors that you've made. For example, if I do, Kenna, color, what do we think? Let's go with a turquoise type color. Okay. I'll try this. So here's our turquoise type color, and you can see this color, but let's put something underneath it and see what that looks like. This would be kind of cool for collage, I'm gonna have to use something that's deep enough that you'll be able to see, maybe a purple. Let's see if that, how that looks. So you're sort of color combining. I put the blue right on top of the purple, and it's kind of a neat effect. I'll go right outside the blue. So it's fun, but again, I would do this if I were trying to create a kind of study for something, simply because, and it has to do with archival nature, it's not gonna last too long. These are very, very thin, it's like tissue paper, they are tissue paper. So I would use them for that purpose, and that purpose alone. Let's test the same kinda thing with the oil pastel. Now remember, the oil pastels, I'm gonna use them as light as I can, they're much more opaque, I can go very densely with this, but if I go too densely, you won't see anything underneath, so what's the point? So there's this tonality, and then I'll put underneath it, I'll go a little darker with the red, let's see if we can make a combined color. Yeah, it creates a kind of a purple color. And so it's fun to play with that, the transparency nature of tracing paper. Another kind of paper that you can also do a transparency on would be vellum trace, and vellum trace is a much more, it's more expensive, that's one thing, but it just has this heft to it that it takes a lot more than the other tracing paper that I showed you. And we could do the same sort of thing where I have a color, and then I put a color underneath. I can make changes with trace paper too, I like it as a drawing tool, generally speaking, but it's kinda neat the color that you can make with that. I'll push the purple a little more. It's sort of a neat tool to be able to layer color and test it. I would use this as a testing surface for trying to figure out a more finished piece, but that's called vellum trace, and it's a more expensive, more hefty tracing paper, it's a very smooth surface.
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Janelle
This class is titled getting started for a reason. It tells you all the basics about material use for you to just get started and play with the medium. Enjoy the process!
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