For decades, I have worked with Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper — a surface I know inside and out. This post is about my Experience with UART Pastel Paper, while working on a special family Pastel portrait featuring four full figures together, Mother with her sons. A big size Soft Pastel portrait painting of a family.
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Recently, I embarked on a very special project: a family pastel portrait featuring four full figures together — a mother with her sons.
The composition required a lot of space — much more than the large Canson paper I usually work with (29 × 43 inches). Since that wasn’t big enough, I decided to finally try the famous UART Pastel Paper in a roll.
This is a step by step Pastel portrait painting of a young boy with his favorite hat. I took several pictures of him inside doors, playing with the lights and the shadows, inspired by his strong personality. I choose an image where his pure and innocent look observed me intensively. I felt it could be […]
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