Finally, now that I have returned from the road trip, I have some time to finalise some demonstration pieces. This is the wet pastel underpainting portrait demo from the PSA Brisbane meeting Tuesday August 6th.
Over a charcoal portrait study (begun at the NZ portrait workshop) on Art Spectrum Colourfix paper – Soft Umber – I placed green and raw umber AS soft pastels.
I then wet these areas with water and a taklon brush, and pushed the pastel into the paper, ensuring that all the pastel was melted.
Placing soft pastel over these areas to develop the portrait. This was as far as I was able to work, before the meeting was over.
The completed portrait demonstration. Pastel on a Quarter sheet Colourfix paper.
