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Hi, I’m Melody on behalf of Expert Village. I’m going to show you another trick working
with pastels and I’ve already started it. I have a small brush here that can be used
for watercolor, oils or in this application so it can be any brush and I just happen to
have this idea to put a color on the background, sorta similar to a sunset and what I was thinking
of doing was trying to show you the difference between just the texture, leaving it alone
and then a application of water with a color. And I’m creating something that resembles
some sort of a palm tree base, maybe. I actually rubbed this brush, dipped it in water, and
then I rubbed it on my brown block style pastel and we’ll see, you don’t want it to be
too dark. And I’m just blending it in there, and its taking all the colors and mixing them
together. Now I would think depending on if you were trying to do a very subtle tree,
or just the silhouette of a tree, you would use either more or less of the color. And
I think what’s kinda neat is, if you put the darkest part of the color on one side,
it can actually look like the shady side and that the sunset or the sun is happening on
the other side and the way you can blend it all together, you can actually take a light
color, lighter color, make a lighter color and you could pull it in from the other side
and have your highlight on one side. Mainly you’re not painting the whole area, you’re
just having a contrasted area between this that’s rough in texture and this that’s
smooth. Now in the next segment I’m going to show you another trick that will just be
amazing