Chalk pastels

Chalk pastels are one of the best mediums to use if you are just learning how to paint. The medium has a painter- like quality very similar to brush strokes on a canvas. This post will cover everything you need to know about Chalk Pastels for Beginners, the differences in chalk pastel brands and how to finish a chalk pastel drawing!

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The Ultimate Guide to Chalk Pastel Art with a huge list of tutorials, how tos, encouragement and the joy of art for all ages.

Learn how to create broken color effects in this pastel tutorial from Robert Carsten, a featured artist in the Oct 2011 issue of Pastel Journal.

We hope you will find the above tips and ideas useful in creating beautiful chalk pastel artworks.

Chalk pastel supplies for a simple start in art for ALL ages!

Today we are going to paint a very simple scene but with a new technique. It will be a chalk pastels less is more technique. Once you get the idea, you can use it again and again with other scenes! We are not going to DRAW clouds, but use our pastels AROUND the clouds to make cloud shapes.

I love drawing space art digitally, but I thought it might be fun to try drawing it with pastels instead. I took a sheet of paper, painted it with black ink, and then coated it with some clear gess…