Portraits

Pastels ~ Colored Pencils ~ Graphite

  • Man with Cigarette

    Photo reference Public Domain from PXHere; Materials: pastel sticks, and pastel pencils on mat board primed with Golden pastel ground

  • Girl with the Blue Scarf

    Photo reference of a girl in Stockholm, Sweden taken by Andreas Norstedt, with permission - Materials: pastel sticks, and pastel pencils on mat board primed with Golden pastel ground

    Street Portraits by Andreas Norstedt

  • The Man in the Beret

    Photo reference of Ian, a street musician from Glasgow, Scotland taken by Charles Hamilton, with permission - Materials: pastel sticks, pastel pencils and colored pencils on mat board primed with Golden pastel ground

    Charles Hamilton, Flickr

  • The Street Musician

    Photo reference of a street musician in Edinburgh, Scotland taken by Ralf Steinberger, with permission - Materials: Pastel sticks and pencils on mat board primed with Golden pastel ground

  • The Face Painter

    Photo reference taken by Earl McGehee of Jennifer, an artist who was exhibiting at the East AUstin Studio Tour, via Flickr CC BY 2.0 - Materials: Pastel sticks and pencils on Canson Mi Tientes Paper

  • Lt Cmdr. Joseph Langdell, U.S. Navy

    Photo Reference from James E. Fochl, Public Domain via Wikimedia; Materials: Pastel sticks and pastel pencils on Canson Mi Tientes paper (Lt Cmdr. Joseph Langdell survived the bombing of the battleship Arizona at Pearl Harbor and died at the age of 100.)

  • Model from Brazil

    Photo reference from Pexels, Creative Commons, Image by Guilherme Jorge Photography; Materials: Sennelier Soft Pastels, Carbothello and FaberCastell pastel pencils on Canson Mi Teintes paper