MATERIALS
• Any reasonable pastel paper, white or slightly coloured (grey or ochre).• 4B and 6B woodless charcoal.• White charcoal pencil.• Art Spectrum soft pastels including: Warm Grey, Cool Grey, Blue Grey, Ultramarine Blue (Light), Australian Grey, Raw Umber, Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Spectrum Red Deep, Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Light Red and Pilbara Red.• Art gum eraser.• Fixative.• 2B pencil. Glenn Demnar, my art mentor for many years, used the term ‘loose’. Looseness has become a predominant feature of my style. With oils, being ‘loose’ engenders minimal risk … it’s only paint. Socalled mistakes can be corrected through overpainting; scraping; or just leaving and re-assessing later.
With drawing, however, ‘looseness’ is a risk. Unless one exclusively uses easily erasable graphite, the possibility of correcting ‘mistakes’ becomes problematic. Attempts to…