Finished this 8x10 soft pastel painting today

[LiberalLoner]

20. Thank you! Marla Baggetta has some good suggestions for new artists just starting in soft pastel,

She recommends getting a set of nupastels, a set of Rembrandt half sticks, and the Paris half stick set from Sennelier. If you add up the various costs plus buying pastel paper, works out to be maybe about five hundred. Not cheap, but some wouldn’t find it too hard to save up that much. If wages weren’t so insanely low in this nation most everyone could afford to paint with soft pastels. We need a fifteen dollar minimum wage, basic guaranteed income, something along those lines.

If I had to start from scratch and could only afford a hundred or so I would buy a 90 half stick set of Rembrandt’s, you can make some good paintings just with those.

There are far cheaper soft pastels available but they aren’t artist grade.