I went back for my second art class and it was just as much fun as the first! I had gone to the art store in the meantime (of course) and bought some lovely pastels in pretty colours and pastel paper in dark shades, so the teacher set up some apples for me under a strong light and I had a bash. This is the photo of the apples... nice colours and good light and dark contrasts.
It was definitely a learning curve, especially in how to combine the colours and how to get something that looks textured and not like a wall of solid crayon. Then getting the lights lighter and the darks darker without everything going all muddy.
I was pleased with this in the end, but it took a lot of fiddling about for such simple shapes! I'm going to try something landscapey next week, we shall see how it goes. The teacher gets us to take a photo halfway through too, which is really useful.
The main problem is how filthy your hands get, with smudging everything together. Then I end up wiping it on my jeans. I need an artist's smock...
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