3RD OF 3 PRACTICAL
Emma Colbert
graduated at UCA Maidstone with a 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 on 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 bumblebee tutorial at www.patreon.com/emmacolbertart
After many years using soft pastel, it’s only in the last five years that I have really begun to explore different pastel papers. I conducted a paper experiment producing the same small painting 15 times on different papers. This allowed me to compare all the brands and I found another few that I liked working on, including Fisher 400, which impressed me so much that I have used it a few times since. I decided to produce this small demonstration of a bumblebee using Fisher 400 as I
