‘Sunset, Church Bay, Anglesey’ by Robert Dutton. Techniques varying from a blend with your fingers, cloth or tools such as a colour shaper are a personal choice.
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Choices how to blend and mix pastel colours are as infinite and varied as there are pastels to choose from. In essence, dry colour is applied onto a receptive surface (one with tooth in order to hold the pastel) as if painting across the surface with pure pigment.
Painting with soft pastel is a very unique experience since you will be both drawing and painting at the same time when expressing your personal creativity. There is never a disappointment when using both together for any subject. I personally find that the unique surface tooth of Canson Mi-Teintes Touch 350gsm pastel paper works exceptionally well with Rembrandt Pastels. As a medium pastel they are a lot more durable and so last longer – great news for pastellists who like to use a more ‘toothy’ pastel paper support or rough textured watercolour paper when working. Although Rembrandt Pastels are branded as a soft pastel, I would describe them realistically as a medium soft pastel as they are harder than many other brands such as Unison and Sennelier for example. “I frequently use Rembrandt Pastels in all my work, which includes mixed media painting as well as a wide variety of supports. Previously having given his thoughts about the Amsterdam Acrylic range from Royal Talens and knowing that he also works in pastel we thought it would be useful to get his take on Royal Talens Rembrandt Soft Pastels. For those of you that are familiar with our latest Materials Guide catalogue, you might already have spotted reviews by mixed media artist and demonstrator Robert Dutton.