Producing a Still Life Using Soft Pastels
During the first period of the day Mrs Blossfeldt introduced herself
and told us about her life and history of pastel work. Mrs Blossfeldt
explain the best techniques and how to get various tones and structure
to our work.
Second period we started drawing out the rough outlines, in a light
soft pastel of the still life, which in our case was a vase of
flowers. After I had finished sketching out the basic form and
structure, and made sure I had got the proportions correct I was ready
to start adding detail.
After coming back from break we all started adding detail and building
up the picture, making sure I was getting the right proportion and
adding bright colours and cures to make it look as realistic as I
could.
Throughout the rest of the day I added layers of pastels to build up
the picture to get the tones and boldness. I made sure I finished the
artwork in period 6, and I had finished early so I decided to take on
a background. To make the flower look like it wasn't this on its own,
and I choose the same sort of colour which I used on the flower so it
wasn't so bright, and making sure it didn't loose the detail and
composition of the flower.
Techniques I have learnt from Mrs Blossfeldt were, by adding layers of
colours which wasn't the actual colours I could see, but just a small
amount of blue on the flower, makes the artwork standout and have more
structure within, and makes your artwork better quality and more
realistic.
Mrs Blossfeldt adds layers of pastel colours to build up tone and
texture making the artwork more exciting and different. She doesn't
really use any new technology on her work, Mrs Blossfeldt uses natural
light and sharpens the pastels by sandpaper.
The formal elements I used within my artwork were, tone, which I did
by adding layers of colours on each other.
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