Setting up a still life is a great way to learn more! Your light source stays in one place. This is a photo I took and then played with it to this end result.

Note: Taking photos of the still life and changing them into black and white photos helps you to examine where shading will go.

~Examples of my still life pastels~

Note: The follow work is me working to improve my skills with soft pastels and my drawing techniques, as well as setting up a good still life and understanding lighting. Relearning forgotten skills from 2024 forward.

Blue Rooster

Drawings of this same pitcher follow this one.

Now a colorful surprise of a bowl of fruit, soft pastel painting. Thi

A photo worked to a softened state to use as reference photo for a still life.

The soft pastel of the above photo.

A first still life using the soft pastels.

A second still life using the pastel pencils. A study.