PanPastels & Stencil Girl Stencils=A Fun New Adventure!

I  am new to PanPastels  so I was looking forward to experimenting with them.  The first thing I did (and I recommend this to anyone unfamiliar with them as they are different than traditional "stick" pastels) was go to their website as well as their Facebook page.  There are a number of great tutorials and demos that show how to use them.  There are so many possibilities! 

I was sent 5 colors:  green, copper, yellow, orange, and deep pink.  
I selected two stencils:

Medallions by Jessica Sporn

and...

Abigail, A Timeless Woman

by Andrea Matus Demeng

I pulled this off the PanPastel website.  86 colors: Oh My!

Here are the PanPastel colors I worked with.  They have a very creamy, low-dust

quality that makes them behave more like paint than any pastel I have used previously.

They are exceedingly easy to blend.

First, I applied pink alternating with orange using the Medallion stencil

and covering the majority of my drawing paper.  This paper is fairly smooth yet does have a bit of "tooth" which helps grab the Pan Pastel.

I really love the effect of the two blended colors as my background for the next stencil/Pan Pastel layer....

I overlaid the Abigail stencil onto the paper.

Using first the copper color I applied the Pan Pastel through the stencil.

Next, I layered pink and touches of the green.   The green gives me a lot of

depth for shadowing and adding a bit of color in the eye region.

Because these colors blend so nicely I am able to create many other colors from my limited palette.

Adding just a bit of shadow to define the cheeks...

Now, I plan to use the bright yellow to define the background from the face.

I am lightly "cross-hatching" the pastel around the head, and also 

working a bit more of the pink from the left edge of the throat.

This creates a bit of "shadow" effect which tells the viewer where the light source is from.

Now, I am lightly brushing the background with my finger to soften and slightly blur

the background.  

I may work a slight bit more pink/green in the left edge of her forehead.  Since

I imagine the light source to be the upper right corner of my paper, I won't need much on the left

side of her forehead as it is closer to the light source.

Here is a detail of her face.

The lovely thing about working with these PanPastels is that I could continue to layer the surface,

if I choose to add more details such as layers of tissue, etc.  There are many possibilities!

Thank you for stopping by.  Please be sure to leave a comment to be eligible for the drawing.  If you haven't added these stencils and PanPastels to your mixed media arsenal I hope you are inspired to do so now!

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One stencil per day will be given away from the blogs featured that day. Grand Prize:One set of PanPastels with sponges and a selection of stencils. All comments on all blogs during the 4 days are eligible.  Please visit all the participants:

Monday

StencilGirl Talk

Mary Beth Shaw

Mary C. Nasser

Tuesday

StencilGirl Talk

Janet Joehlin

Jennifer Priest

Leslie Tucker Jenison

Wednesday

StencilGirl Talk

Gwen Lafleur

Kirsten Reed

Julia Kellogg

Thursday

StencilGirl Talk

Carolyn Dube

Maria McGuire

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