A Beginner's guide to
pastel painting

Everything you need to pick up pastels with confidence - free, straight from 20 years of teaching, no fluff.

Pastels can feel intimidating before you've even opened the box - which pastels to buy, which paper actually works, why your colors keep turning to mud. This guide skips the overwhelm and gives you the real answers, the ones I wish someone had handed me when I was starting out.  

What's inside:  

-How to choose your first pastels (hard vs. soft, and what actually matters) 

-The paper that makes or breaks your layering 

-Setting up a workspace that doesn't get in your way 

-Color theory, simplified 

-Why mud happens - and how to avoid it, or use it on purpose 

-A simple exercise to put it all into practice