PaintBoss
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Wow, great job on those peppers! Really gorgeous work!
This is a chalk pastel with also pan pastels. My first pastel work. I didn’t pick the right paper so I had to stop here because it literally would just fall to the floor whenever I added more pastel. So it is “as is”. But my little niece loves it!
Next: your craziest work. You can define the crazy! Lol
This is a chalk pastel with also pan pastels. My first pastel work. I didn’t pick the right paper so I had to stop here because it literally would just fall to the floor whenever I added more pastel. So it is “as is”. But my little niece loves it!
Next: your craziest work. You can define the crazy! Lol
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Yup my first. After that, I went out and I bought proper paper. Pastelmat. Very rough with incredible tooth to grab layers of pastel. I didn’t do much on it. I was trying to draw an eye. And I just don’t know how pastel artists do it. I would need to watch some videos. I have pastel pencils, but I just found I could not make a sharply defined anything- like an eye. I know people can do it so I guess I just have to watch and learn. Make sure I’m doing it all properly. But then my breathing just could not handle the loose pastel dust in the air. So I stopped using it. Building up the layers was a lot of fun. But you are limited as soon as you run out of tooth. So proper paper is essential. I found it easy building up the base and background just like you would another medium. 
