Oriental Girl

MATERIALS

• I used Mi Teintes TEX Pastel paper (this comes in a range of colours. I chose black. It is highly textured and as I was working on it I realised I would have actually preferred to use a standard Canson pastel paper with less texture for this piece)

• I use a range of charcoals and soft and hard pastels that I have bought over time including Coates Willow Charcoal, Rowney Charcoal, Lefranc and Bourgeois soft pastels, Schmincke, and Conti crayons. Some are very soft and have rich colour. My Conti’s are my staple though. I’m not precious about my pastels and have broken all of them into much smaller pieces. I tend to mostly use them sideways to get a generous