Painting with pastels tutorials

Our experts offer 10 tips about how to paint with pastels, regarding choosing pastels and surfaces, making an underpainting, and staying loose.

If you're in need for oil pastel drawing ideas consider flowers. Here are three easy oil pastel flower drawings you can recreate in no time.

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In this easy tutorial for beginners I show you how you can draw an impressionist water lilies landscape with oil pastels.

'Mountain Memories' 8x10 pastel ©Karen Margulis Are you new to pastels or looking for a way to simplify your work? Why not try this simple method for starting a pastel painting. There are so many choices and options available to pastel artists these days...new papers and pastels open up great possibilities. It can be overwhelming. What paper to use? Underpaint or not? Sometimes it just feels good to go back to basics. This is the method that I learned when I first started with pastels. My…

'Evening Song' 18x24 pastel ©Karen Margulis sold A little magic makes painting fun! Painting re...

Discover how to color with pastels and make beautiful artworkPastels have been a favorite medium of many well-known artists, including Manet, Degas and Renoir—and with good reason! Pastels allow you to layer and blend vibrant colors to...

Many artists draw their painting inspiration from the landscape. Why? There's the practical aspect: Unlike other subjects—a figure model or a wildlife subject, for example—the landscape is there and ready to accommodate your schedule. You can step outside your door at any time, if you like, and start looking for compositions. That said, the lure of the landscape for most has much more to do with the creative aspects ...