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Establishing Pastel Background Color

Pastel background colors can be achieved using texturing techniques. Learn how to establish background colors with pastels in this free video.

- Adding Initial Background Color in Pastel Paintings
- Refining Edges with Pastel Background Colors

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Ok. I've established a background of light green. I want to go lighter and when I look at that I also see that there's a lot of yellow and a lot of white in there. So I'm going to move to a yellow and I'm just going to start refining some of these shapes. This being, and I'm just going to start hatching in, over the green that we've already got, a texture using a crosshatching technique to give this green a lighter value and to create some textural surfaces at the same time to bring up the value of the green in the background, and you'll notice that what's happening is there's some blending going on, and from your perspective, your eye is going to blend some of these colors together optically in such a way that your eye will do the work of making this a single color because it wants to see it as a solid color. We'll come back in and we'll do some more of this later with more hatching and with more color, but this is basically the process that will let us start to create the shape and refine these forms in such a way that it becomes an interesting painting.

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Establishing Pastel Background Color

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