by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | May 22, 2024 | Soft Pastel Tips
How To Clean Pastelmat There’s a popular myth that you have to start soft pastel with the best soft pastels money can buy. (I use the best pastels money can buy because I’m creating commissions for my lovely client’s beloved family and pets. They...
by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | May 16, 2024 | Artist Advice, Soft Pastel Tips
Space For Your Art Hello my lovely art friends, new and old! Today I wanted to share with you one of the most useful ways to improve your art and that is regular practice. It’s not ground breaking or new advice lol! But how do you go about doing regular...
by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | Mar 23, 2023 | Soft Pastel Tips
How To Sharpen Pastel Pencils If you are struggling with how to sharpen pastel pencils, i know how you feel because I struggled too. I must have spent around £100 on pencil sharpeners and other people must have spent £50 helping me work that out! That’s...
by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | Mar 17, 2023 | Soft Pastel Tips
Which Pastel Pencils Work Best On Which Paper? There’s no prize for guessing which pastel pencils and pastel sticks are my favourite – just looking at that delicious photo!! But, the point of this blog is not what is my favourite but which pastel pencils...
by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | Mar 10, 2023 | Soft Pastel Tips
How to Choose Colours for a Painting I don’t know about you but if you are anything like me when I first started learn soft pastel, I could never get the colour right. I’d always be picking up the wrong pastels and ending up with a mess that would end up...
by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | Jul 18, 2021 | Soft Pastel Tips
Black Labrador Fur in Soft Pastel My online class members have been asking me to do a black dog fur tutorial for a while now because black dog fur can be quite a tricky effect to achieve. However, they surprised me when I asked them this question: “What do...
