This comprehensive instructional video guides the artist in a 2 1/2 hour journey into pastel portraiture. Follow Greene step-by-step as he paints a pastel portrait from start to finish.

This video includes:

Valuable tips on how to best organize your materials as well as thorough explanations on pastels, paper and other materials used.
An introduction into selecting backgrounds and lighting, and choosing comfortable and natural positions for models.
A glimpse at Green's creative process through composition and preliminary drawing, painting in the early stages, and progression from darks to middletones to lights.
A checklist to help determine when a portrait is complete.
Tips for painting hair and clothing.
Covers which materials are used and why.

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Learn to make charming portraits and figure paintings with pastels.