Mary River Rocks
Aug 16, 2019
3 minutes
By Alison Worsnop
THE PASTELS
keep my ‘outdoor’ set in a cheap plastic fisherman’s box – the kind with compartments used to keep hooks and lures. I pack the pastels in with cotton wool or rice, so the rougher the journey, the cleaner they get. I use all kinds from the softest Unison, Schmincke, Sennelier, Art Spectrum, Winsor & Newton, to the relatively hard Rembrandt, Conte sticks and pastel pencils, and now the American Pan Pastels. The more colours the better. I never have enough. In this painting I used a wide range of colours, hardnesses and makes of pastels
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