Toothed Paper for Soft Pastels
Certainly scratchboard done the way I do it also resembles drawing. I used to be an artist who plugged away at oils, acrylics, or even watercolours and never made any of them work properly for me. In fact, I have huge admiration for anyone who can use a brush and make it ‘talk’. I would post my work online on art forums to get critiques. Most people were kind but I certainly wasn’t setting the world alight. However, one day a passionate pastel artist suggested I try soft pastels, thinking my fairly detailed work would be a good fit for the medium. Well, I thought back to the massive, bold strokes that some pastel artists use and concluded that I couldn’t do
