NOVEMBER DEMONSTRATION

November's demonstration was a return visit by Eric Watson   demonstrating animal painting in pastels. Eric worked mainly with pastel pencils and moved to coloured pencils for finer details towards the end. His favoured support is now Clairefontaine Pastelmat which has a smooth cork grain surface. Animal reference photos for artists are available online.

More information about Eric's work can be found on his website https://www.ericwatsonart.com/

Below are a few images from the demo.  Thanks to Eric for an excellent demo.

Showing the difference between pencil and pastel
Eye to the left in pencil
Eye to the right in pastel

Many colours in the eye

Background added after most of the snow leopard
has been painted

Some whiskers added