Pastels

Three credits · Undergraduate

This studio course introduces pastels as a drawing medium. Pastels are crayon-like sticks of compressed pigment in either a chalk or wax binder. In this course, colour mixing and pastel techniques on a variety of papers will be explored as will the expressive potential of the medium. Students will complete a number of landscape, still life, and portrait paintings. Emphasis will be put on developing compositional skills using pastels. Prerequisites: ART 101, 102. Three credits.