Power-Packed Pastel Duo Now Available
Two excellent pastel courses, one amazing price
Karen Margulis: Expressive Pastel Painting
Consistently create successful pastel paintings by utilizing a system that will help you overcome fear, gain confidence, and allow you to be bold in expressing your new-found personal style.
Karen Margulis knows the challenges many pastel artists face:
- Relying too heavily on reference photos, not allowing a personal touch
- Jumping right into a painting without proper preparation
- Adding fine details without having a solid foundation first
- Getting stuck halfway through a painting and not knowing where to go next
- Dull, muddy colors
- Overworking a painting and not recognizing when done is done
- Not having a solid system to follow each time you create a new painting
When you study with Karen, you’ll discover the ‘like clockwork’ system she uses to stay creative and consistent … all without compromising quality.
Here’s just a hint of what you’ll discover with Karen:
- LOOSEN UP and be more free in your work
- Use more INTERESTING COLORS and move away from only local colors
- Overcome Fear of the BLANK CANVAS
- Know exactly when a painting is FINISHED
- EXPLORE the pastel medium and experiment with UNUSUAL techniques
Together with Karen’s breakthrough course, we’re making another hot-selling pastel video available at a special bundled price.
Brenda Boylan: Pastel FUNdamentals
Pastels the EASY way: In “Pastel FUNdamentals”, Brenda Boylan shows you the secrets she has learned over her career that make the difference in how a landscape turns out. She shows you the right way to hold the pastels, how and when to vary the pressure for effect, and more like…
- How to give your work harmonious color
- What to do with broken pastels
- How to demystify framing challenges for pastel paintings
- How to apply darks lightly as shapes
- Brenda’s method for a solid underpainting
- The “lights on” secret
- The right way to apply isopropyl alcohol so it just melts in
- What paper is perfect for texture and depth
- How to use the flat edge of the pastel for big impact
- The right order to apply pastels to keep them clean
- The “sky hole” trick for a captivating sky
- A way to get grasses and weeds to look realistic
- How using edges can guide the eye
- The “step back” technique and why you MUST know it
- And so much more!