How to Blend Chalk Pastels

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Melody on behalf of Expert Village. I’m going to show you in this segment how to use some of these pastels that we have here. As I mentioned before these colors have been blended from the primary colors. It makes a very nice color to be blended with, say, a little bit more of a green for some type of foliage and you can also put in some browns. Now that’s just application, one thing we do is use just your run of the mill Q-tip. Instead of buying a blending stick because I just didn’t happen to do that today, I’m using these Q-tips, which are just perfect for this. You see you get a much softer look not to mention it does blend the colors together. So depending on what you’re trying to create, you get a softer look and a more blended look. Now this was the chalk style pastels. And as I mentioned they also come in oil style, which is very similar to using oil paint. You can just about wipe that away if it were in the far ground, you could just keep wiping and it would just keep going away. All right I think what we’ll do here is go to the next segment to show you the oil based ones. I think that we’ve done about as much as we can with that here. We’ll show you the pencils next also."