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| 'Celebrate the Bees' 12x16 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $165 |
I keep my pearlescent pastels in a separate box. They tend to be softer and more crumbly and fragile than other soft pastels. I forget to use then since they are not in plain sight. When I do remember I tend to get carried away. They are just so much fun! For today's painting I managed restrain myself. I used a piece of pale green pearlescent pastel by Great American Artworks. I used in in place of a regular pale green in my flowers. You can see the shimmer in the photo below.
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| close up of the pearlescent pastel detail |
Note: I have several brands of pearlescent or iridescent pastels. They are all fun to use and make a great addition to your collections. Here are some to consider:
New for 2016 Diane Townsend soft "Pearl Gems"
Great American Pearlescents (love Sage and Grunewald)
2 comments:
Sennelier also has some pearlescent, more easily accessible to all at blicks!
I love pearlescent pastels! I have an iridescent white Sennelier and several Roche metallics. They're gorgeous! I've also got the pearlescent Pan Pastels. It gets interesting with Pans, because I tend to bring them in blended with other Pans and the effect does become subtle, they are sometimes exactly the right mid-light value between Tints and pure colors. There's also the glitter mediums, both black and white, in Pan Pastels and I think Sennelier has an iridescent black for putting a little shimmer in the darks.
They are a lot of fun, the effect can be very natural sometimes. Iridescent white can work well for something like frost or dew too, picking up a natural iridescence. I used it in sea foam on surf on some seaside scenes instead of the regular white and it was striking!
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