Q. What first interested you in art?
A. I’ve always been interested in art because I am a visual thinker. I remember doing my first art for a story book in2nd grade and took my first art class in 3rd grade. What I love about art is the ability to convey stories and emotion without using words.
Q. What is your favorite type of art?
A. Broadly, my favorite is anything drawn or painted and I specifically love surrealism and cubism movements. I also love sculpture- especially love clay and furniture.
Q. How did you learn to use pastels?
A. I learned to use pastels in my teens through art classes in high school. We used them extensively in color theory and sketching.
Q. What is your favorite type of pastels?
A. My favorite brand? Those are Rembrandts, which are chalk pastels as opposed to oil pastels-think chalk instead of crayons.
Q. How many ways are there to set pastels?
A. Ah! well the primary would be to spray a special fixative on the work (hair spray works in a pinch) but you could also lacquer the work.
Q. What is the proper way to hold a pastel?
A. Not sure there is a proper way. Most of the time you will hold it just like a pencil. But, other times you could hold it so that that you can use the whole side of the pastel instead of just the end.
Q. Can you shade with pastels easily?
A. Yes you can they are great for shading and mix and match well to create new colors.
Q. How hard is it to work with pastels?
A. That’s a trick question. Pastels are very forgiving of mistakes and being somewhat unstructured but it is very hard to do precision work with pastels-they are inherently messy?
Q. What is the easiest way to keep a pastel from breaking while working!?
A. Keep a light but firm grip near the point or edge you are using. Also don’t apply hard pressure, instead take extra time fill in with more and lighter strokes.
Q. Is a pastel easy to make a small drawing with?
A. Define small. But in general as long as we are not talking about something smaller than 3” by5” it’s not to difficult
Q. What type of art is closest to pastels?
A. I think water painting is. The challenged and overall feel of finished works are very similer.
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