mixed media pastel play - no pressure, just colour and texture 🤩

This video is all about slow, playful experimentation with pastels - soft pastel, pan pastels and even pastel pencils. I spent a couple of months exploring colours, texture, layering and different mix media tests to see how I can implement pastels into my work.
This is like my little pastel journal, and it's not finished yet! I will be back in a couple of months with part 2 - where I focus on pan pastels and there may or may not be a BIG pan pastel haul (there will be, I promise)

Come hang out, see what worked (and what didn’t), and maybe pick up a few ideas for your own art play :)

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Materials:
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Diane Townsend Artists' Pastels - Flourescent Set of 12: https://tidd.ly/4745bbr *
Windsor and Newton Clear Gesso: https://tidd.ly/46xrXrp *
Liquitex Professional Fluid Medium Matt: https://tidd.ly/3I8o8Qg *
Various inks and paints - too many to write down but please comment if you are after a specific colour or material and I will do my best to find it!

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Chapters:
00:00: Hello
00:34 Swatching
01:25 Some drawings I've made already
03:55 Layering Pastels
09:37 Gel matt VS Acrylic Medium
14:02 Mixing pastels with ink and paint
26:59 Mixed media spread
29:12 Pan Pastels and Pencils
31:57 Drawings catch-up
34:20 Pan Pastel tiger
36:07 Smudge Test
39:14 Goodbye

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