This tutorial suggests a good beginner to intermediate set of pastels to get you off to a great start with this wonderful painting medium.Please visit https://paintinglessonswithmarla.com/ to sign up for FREE minilessons and explore my educational offerings!

Artist Website: https://www.marlabaggetta.com
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Each of my pastel paintings is created on archival sanded pastel paper which is specifically made for grabbing onto those small particles of pigment that make a pastel so luminous! The pastels are pure pigments made into sticks using a little water and a binder, nothing more. Most of the brands that I use are hand rolled by artisan makers.
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My working process is a simple one; I start on location, sketching, photographing and painting. Some of these field studies make their way to the studio. In the studio I use all of that visual information and combine it with the sense or feeling I had for a location and create what is inevitably an abstraction of sorts in that it is not merely a copy of a photo but an interpretation of place. I hope that you enjoy the work!