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In this issue
Editorial Scribble ...................................................................................................... 2
Get Dusty Challenge Results ................................................................................... 3
Meet The Get Dusty Winner: Sharron Blackmore .................................................. 6
Sharron Shares Her Method For Painting Fur ........................................................ 9
How To Make New Pastels From Crumbs, Bits, Nubbins, And Dust.................. 11
Editorial Scribble
It is lovely to see you all again after the
summer holidays.
In this issue, you meet Get Dusty winner
Sharron Blackmore, who tells her story of how
she stumbled into pastel painting.
Contact: scribbler@pastelguild.com
Charlotte Herczfeld
Second place:
Magic Hour, by Eve Miller
The Jury says: The artist has chosen an extra long format, and balanced it well by letting the sky
dominate and keeping the beautifully dark water and the land mass to a minimum. Bright and intense
is balanced by darker muted colours. The layered colours give that extra glow to the sky.
Embarrassed
Mad Man
by Jim Humphreys
by Ole Hedeager
http://www.abrushwithanimals.com
Far Away
Cheetah Cub
Ready to Launch
In the pictures of the tiger you can see how each stage was built with random strokes layered and relayered with extra colours added by both glazing and individual strokes.
If you use a printed reference then I suggest actually laying the pastel against it to judge the colours
more accurately. It is surprising just how far away you can be without realising. You do get better at
judging colours and it can be a good tester to see how accurate you are.
Serenity
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How to make new pastels from crumbs, bits, nubbins, and dust
by Charlotte Herczfeld
When what is left of a pastel stick is
too small to hold, what do you do with
it do you throw it away, or do you
save it? What about crumbs and the
crushed remains of that stick that fell
onto the concrete floor?
Save them all, and make new pastels
from them! Here is how you can do it.
You will need some materials:
A sheet of glass
A single edge blade
Plastic bags ( about 1 litre)
Plastic gloves
Plastic or wooden spoons
A hammer
A piece of cardboard
Newspapers
A tray
A mask (dont breathe in the pastel dust)
An eyedropper
A glass of distilled water
A damp rag
I collect all small bits of pastel, and store them separated from each other by hue, but I do put all
brands and all values into the same container, just to make life simple.
When you paint, a lot of fine dust falls off the painting. You can collect that dust with a dust catcher
under the lower edge of the painting and store in containers. This dust will give you neutrals.
Put the bits and ends into a plastic bag. Put the
bag on some newspapers on a sturdy surface.
Use the hammer to crush the pastel bits into
powder. This powder will not be very fine, and
that is OK.
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