Special Edition #2: Pastel Sunset

Acrylic, watercolor, pencils, and colored pencils are what you've used until now. Now let's add another material for our new project: pastels. It's not oil pastels; it happens to be two different materials. Pastels are substances in which it is made by colored powder. It's meant to use it when you want to color it lightly. It's also made to smudge the powder with a tissue. 

We are going to draw and color the sky/sunset. You will need: a set of pastels, pencil, eraser, tissues, a piece of paper and a spray for pastels. As we all know by now, you should print out a photo of a sunset. Then on a piece of paper, sketch it lightly that are the most important. After you've done it, take out the pastels, and gently color it. Don't press it on the paper; this material is not for you to color with 100% opacity. For another reason, it will leave many powders on your paper, which doesn't look pretty. After you've colored some parts, cover one finger with a tissue to smudge the powder. It would look like as if you've painted it. Then, do the other parts like that. While you are smudging it, blend with the other parts of the sky. And for the black colored parts, don't do it so much, because black appeals its color so much that we don't need more of it. 

It's what pastels look like (Internet).

Remember that you could mix with other colors by gently coloring it on paper. When you think that you are finally done, spray (use for pastels) it on your drawing, having some distances away from it. This spray is used, because you don't want the powder to smudge in different places by accident. Its job is to stop the smudging, but it doesn't completely do that, so still be careful. 

Quote of the Day: "Colors speak all languages." -Joseph Addison

These are my projects from pastels.