About Sketching by Jasper Salwey

Author:Jasper Salwey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2017-05-25T04:00:00+00:00

LEONARD SQUIRRELL FINISHED PASTEL DRAWING, BASED ON SKETCH SHOWN ON PLATE 36

PLATE 38

J. K. POPHAM (above) LANDSCAPE SKETCH IN PASTEL;(below) FINISHED PASTEL DRAWING

A study therefore of these examples goes to show that those who have mastered pastel as a medium and employ it to serve their particular aims have succeeded in avoiding the danger of riotous colouring into which it too easily tends to lead the unwary. Pastel affords an opportunity for the development of the most varied technique, yet as is clearly expounded in the latest text-books on the subject there are really but three distinct ways of employing it, of which that of juxtaposing strokes so that the paper shows through is really the most satisfactory. It is obvious, too, that if in doing so the wide range of tints which are obtainable are all employed the possibility for gradation is almost infinite. Yet for sketching it may be best to employ six or eight colours at most, varying their combination to meet the demands of almost any subject. The days of rubbing and stippling and finicking with this medium, it seems, are over. Even the boldest draughtsman, seeing it in the light of modern developments, may include it among those media which will answer the demands of the most vigorous expression.

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