How to Use Pastels on Black Paper

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Melody on behalf of Expert Village. I want to show you a super trick, its so much fun and its using pastels, and I’m using the block style chalky pastels and black background. Now this happens to be a poster board and it doesn’t have very much nap to it. If you go out and you buy yourself just construction paper to play with I think you’ll have a lot of fun doing this. This is fine too, but it blends, it blends smoother, with the construction paper it’s fuzzier, its way interesting. Anyway watch what happens with this. I’m just gonna put some colors on here, so you can see what happens, they’re just really standing out, being here on this black, compared with being on regular white paper. It’s pretty exciting, the highlights just stand out, its pretty cool. Okay, we’re just putting these colors together so you can get an idea of what happens with that. And now we’re going to blend a little bit, just to kinda soften it up a little, and we’ll come back and play with that one again in a minute. I want to show you this really cool trick. If you’re into caricatures, pictures of your friends, this is an excellent color, it’s a flesh color, already made for you. But its too light for most skin tones and too pink. We’re just going to scribble a little shape, similar to a face here and fill it in, on the black it really turns light. What I do is I add some of this brown here, check out the highlights though, the way it reacts to the black paper its so much fun. Okay, now for your, when you’re working on, I’m not showing you how to make a specific picture here, I’m just showing you how these react. I would put white first, to start my positioning things, just so I’ll know where things are, and in our next segment we’re going to look at composition so we’ll go from here, just showing you what happens with these colors and I’ll kinda fade out doing that, just to show you some really neat, look at that, isn’t that beautiful? All right, next segment, watch us blend on black"