Chalk Pastels

Exploring Materials: Chalk Pastels

sq_Chalk Pastel Portrait by Lancelot Richardson

Pastels are a versatile drawing medium which even the youngest learner can enjoy exploring. From hard to soft and chalk to oil, pastels can create a range of diverse results.

Find resources on this page which help aid that exploration, and which take that exploration further through projects and pathways.

All resources can be adapted to all age groups from children through to adult.

INTRODUCTION TO CHALK PASTELS

Artist Lance Richardson introduces chalk pastels – their characteristics and how they might be used. 

See the full post here. 

explore Pastels and chalks

Handpicked resources to help inspire an exploration of soft pastels

Drawing Spiral Snails

Making the spirals their own

Adding Colour

Inspired by Maurice Sendak

Develop skills...

Try these projects to help develop skills and experience

Using Pastels to Capture Texture

Pastels capture Texture by Paula Briggs

Monoprint and Painting the great fire of london

Monoprint and Oil Pastel Inspired by The Great Fire of London by Ruth Sohn-Rethel

Missing You

Missing You - Pavement piece by Rowan Briggs Smith during #lockdown 2020

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