The Possibilites of Using two pastel sticks

"Shadow Intrigue" 8 x 11, pastel on Canson Mi-Tientes paper.
(Painting done with a limited pallet but with more than two sticks, see below for two stick paintings).

 

Yipppeeee I am able to post a blog after a frustrating time getting my images to upload so I have some catching up to do. Class is well under way. We have been studying values and gradations of pastels by limitting our pallets to two sticks in order to see how many values can be created under such limiting circumstances and how we can acheive these values by the amount of pressure we put on our pastels. I used my fingers, kneadable eraser, pipe insulation and cortillan pencil among other blending tools to acheive the various values and color blends.

 Limited pallet paintings from my demos in class 

 

 

Limited Pallet, 8 x 11, pastel on Canson Mi-Tientes paper.

For this painting I chose pink and blue.

 

 

At The Edge, 8 x 11, pastel on Canson Mi-Tientes paper.

For this complimentary themed painting, I chose a  violet and yellow stick.

 

Untuitled, 8 x 11, pastel on Canson Mi-Tientes paper. For this painting, I used black and coral.