Drawing from nature with caitlin heslop feat

Drawing From Nature

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In this tutorial, Caitlin will guide you through different approaches to ‘Drawing from Nature – including quick preliminary sketches done from a vase of flowers. The video tutorial gives you an opportunity to draw along with Caitlin as you make your own compositional thumbnails. Caitlin then demonstrates how to use those initial studies as you begin your pastel work. Caitlin covers three different ways to ‘Draw from Nature’ –

  1. Drawing from life
  2. Drawing from photograph
  3. Drawing from memory

What you will need for this tutorial:

Pastel paper (I use Claire Fontaine Pastelmat Paper)

Unison Colour Pastels

A natural form (e.g. a view of your garden/a plant/a bunch of flowers)

I used a selection of colours in this video – predominantly made up of colours from the 63 half stick set (when colours were finished I bought the same colours in full stick size).

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Tutorial Content

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Draw with me
Part 3: Timelapse
Part 4: Timelapse
Part 5: Working into the drawing again
Part 6: Timelapse
Part 7: Summary

Colour Chart Guidance

We believe the colours in our web based colour chart are a faithful representation of our pastel range. But with any colours portrayed on the internet, there’s a whole heap of variables which mean that what you see, may not be what we see. That said, there’s some things that can be done to mitigate some of the variance.

Mobile phone and tablet screens tend to be pretty good for colour, so they’re always worth using, when viewing our colour chart.

We hate to say it, but cheaper computer displays, including laptops, can be rather hit and miss, in both colour and contrast, so they might not reveal the depth of the colour, as well as the true tone.

If you’re really keen on getting your computer up to speed on colour representation, you can use a calibration device to reach your display's fullest potential.

With all that said, if you think we’re way off the mark with any of the colours then, by all means let us know, and we’ll give it another shot.