Video: Painting Still Life Objects over Pastel Backgrounds

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Still life objects can be added over the background with pastels. Find out how to paint objects over pastel backgrounds in this free video.

- Establishing Texture in Pastel Paintings
- How the Brain Processes Color

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A little bit more to establish that back edge. There's again that dark red that I'm seeing against the very back edge and use of that dark red will help establish the line between there and there much more clearly. And, just because there's a lot of stuff going on in there I'm going to use this dark red and just generally lay down some color even though most of this will probably end up getting covered up later. Just so that we're not dealing with that bare naked background by itself of the ground. So, that we have some texture and some form being established. Now, the next thing that we haven't dealt with at all yet is our pussycat. And, our pussycat is primarily a dark cobalt blue. So, let's find a dark blue to just fill him in and establish his basic shape or her basic shape. I don't know whether it's a female or a male. I'll leave some space for the eyes. Because, they're critical. They're important. Nose and that big old ear, which is reddish. We'll leave that kind of open. The underside of him is not blue. But, I see purple. But, this shape here is an important one until it gets to his paws. It curves around. And, now our kitty is starting to form its shape.

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Painting Still Life Objects over Pastel Backgrounds

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