Derwent Professional Pastel Pencils (Pack of 24)
Pastel Pencils
Derwent
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Pastels are usually all about getting your hands dirty but not with Derwent Pastel Pencils. The wide colour strip is powdery and soft so mixing and blending is really easy and because it is encased in wood you get the pastel effect without the mess (if you can resist using your fingers to blend!). Contains Process Yellow, Naples Yellow, Spectrum Orange, Cadmium Red, Crimson, Magenta, Violet, Dixazine Purple, Ultramarine, Cyan, Prussian Blue, Forest Green, Pea Green, Green Oxide, Olive Green.
Ten Top Tips for Using Pastel Pencils by Carole Massey
Ten Top Tips for Using Pastel Pencils by Carole Massey
- •Use the side of the pencil for broader areas of colour and the tip for drawing and detailed work.
- •To blend pastels you can use a paper stump, a rubber shaper or your finger.
- •Blend several similar colours together to enhance or heighten a colour - e.g. two or three blues or greens.
- •Apply diagonal lines (hatching and cross hatching), of pure colour without blending. This also helps prevent colours becoming ?muddy?.
- •Always work with sharp pencils. Use a pastel pencil sharpener or sharpening stand and craft knife to sharpen and a sandpaper block to hone the tip to a fine point.
- •Hatch large areas with one colour to create an overall harmony or to bring several areas together.
- •Create interest by varying the marks you make. Use both smooth blended areas as well as directional hatching marks.
- •Follow the maxim ?light against dark, dark against light? to increase tonal contrast and bring life to your drawings.
- •Dab with a kneadable eraser to remove excess pastel or shape it to a point to lift out highlights.
- •White is more effective when used directly on the paper, not over other layers of pastel.
More Details
- Pack Size: 24
- Packaged Dimensions: 14 x 198 x 236 mm
- Packaged Weight: 380
- Format: Pastel Pencils
- Brand: Derwent
- Collection: Professional
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