For the majority of this class, after having discussed the pastel techniques of Degas, looking at the colours he used for the skin tone and his application of this medium we worked, in soft pastel, on a pose for just over 1 hour. Encouraged, by our tutor, not to use naturalistic colours and to avoid the temptation to blend the pastel with our fingers. Not blending the pastels, which is the case with Degas work, would maintain the vibrance of the colours and the marks of the pastel can be used to define the plains of the head/face.
Not entirely happy with the position of the mouth...needs to move slightly up towards the nose.
For the final half hour of the session we worked with a limited selection of coloured pencils. I chose blue, purple and red. The aim of this exercise was to define the form of the head using a limited amount of shading/marks.
Happier with this drawing than the first, think the limited selection of colours and time helped sharpen/speed up the decision process as to what tonal areas on the model I was going to include in my drawing
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