Emma Colbert
graduated from UCA Maidstone with BA hons in illustration in 2007 and began working on portrait commissions and producing her own series of wildlife pastel paintings. Endorsed by Unison Colour Pastels, she has created several colour selections of soft pastels for them introducing other artists to the beauty of the medium. Emma loves to paint all subject matter and regularly accepts people and landscape commissions too. Her experiences inspired Emma to start a blog sharing her pastel tips, and later a YouTube and Patreon channel, which has inspired many new artists to pick up the medium of soft pastel. Emma's work has become recognised worldwide, but her attention is now driven towards creating a library of information all about soft pastel to help the medium grow and to help fellow pastel artists with their own progression. To get you started with lots of free videos and tutorials about soft pastel visit www.Youtube.com/emmacolbertart You can access the full tutorial library including this cat tutorial at www.patreon.com/emmacolbertart
I discovered pastel around the age of 12 and that first love grew over the years along with a love of painting animals. It was many years later, having learnt a lot using student grade materials, that I discovered there were different types of pastel paper available. And that there were better pastels to work with than the cheap boxes that had got me started. I use predominantly Unison Colour soft pastels. I designed their animal sets and I love their buttery texture and colour range. But there are many high-quality pastels on the market these days. Adding a little quality to your collection when your
