by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | Jan 21, 2021 | Soft Pastel Tips
Is Soft Pastel Art a Drawing or a Painting? A Drawing, A Painting or A Pastel – What do you call Art in the Pastel Medium? Did you expect a simple answer? 😅 Well, it kind of is and kind of isn’t. Clear as mud? Okay, let me explain. 🤓 Soft Pastel can be a...
by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | Jan 18, 2021 | Soft Pastel Tips
How to Keep Yourself & Your Pastel Art Clean – 7 Top Tips A common complaint about soft pastels I hear time and time again is about getting messy! Pastels can be messy on your hands but you don’t need to be messy everywhere else. I am the most untidy person...
by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | May 21, 2019 | Soft Pastel Tips
How to Frame a Pastel Portrait A lot of people ask me how to frame a pastel painting so I have written this post to show you how I do it. I use Acid free materials because my commissions are designed to last a life time. You can choose to use different materials. ...
by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | Mar 29, 2019 | Soft Pastel Tips
This week in the Improvers art class (based in Southampton) we went in a completely different direction to realism and it was a bit scary – for me as well as the class!! In fact if someone had asked me to do this at the beginning of my art journey I would have...
by Sue Kerrigan-Harris | Feb 28, 2019 | Soft Pastel Tips
This weeks class was all about making our paintings stronger by having a centre of focus and blurring the background. This is known in the photography world as a Bokeh effect. For the pronunciation think Hyacinth “Bucket” from Keeping Up Appearance’s...
