Pastel Materials Part 1 – Pastel Pencils

In this series of posts I’ll be discussing the pastel materials I currently own and use regularly, and any others I previously possessed but have since sold, and my reasons for doing so. I’ll begin with pastel pencils and without doubt my mainstays are the Stabilo CarbOthello set of 60 pastel pencils. They are the first set I ever bought so there are sentimental reasons for them being my favourites, but for me

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Seven Years in the Making

Hello and welcome to my blog. This, the first of an undoubtedly irregular series of posts, will just be an outline of what I hope to be posting. I will be describing my experiences as an artist and my general thoughts about art and other topics I find interesting.  This might include things such as my favourite materials, books, artists, techniques etc. and quite possibly the odd recipe too.  I will also, of

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