{"id":4546,"date":"2016-04-13T23:21:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T06:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howtopastel.com\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2023-08-10T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T05:14:09","slug":"using-pastels-black-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtopastel.com\/2016\/04\/using-pastels-black-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Pastels On Black Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Occasionally I get asked the question: Do you ever use soft pastels on black paper? And the answer is: Well no, I don’t. Mind you, when I first started in pastels over 20 years ago, I worked on a dark green mat board. So I have worked with pastels on dark paper, just not black<\/em> paper. But once I discovered sanded paper, ie Wallis paper which came in the warm mid-value colour known as Belgian mist that I used at first, it was bye-bye dark paper!<\/p>\n

When thinking about what I could do a new pastel demo for YouTube on, I recalled the question about pastels on black paper and here you have the result. I’m using pastels from Mount Vision’s workshop set of 50 pastels on Schmincke’s Sansfix pastel card.<\/p>\n

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Now funnily, it took me some time to choose the colours I would use for the first layer. I say funnily because usually, I work with a much more limited choice of colours ie. smaller pastel starter sets. Having more choice made it more difficult to choose! But it was fun dipping into the jewel box \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Have a look at the video:<\/p>\n