Nina Squire – Soft pastel workshops. Here’s one of my favourite walks, the River Stour, it’s been the inspiration for several of my online soft pastel workshops using Unison Colour. The scenes below capture my favourite elements of rivers and moving water, there’s dappled light, tumbling hedgerows and sparkling pebbles that catch the light. There …
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NIna Squire – Soft pastel painting workshops 2022
This is my second Autumn Series of soft pastel painting workshops. I’ve taken views I’d like to be in and used them as a way of sharing soft pastel painting techniques. My students results have been so encouraging. The series of workshops are flexible, they can either be taken as individuals or as a progressive …
My chat with Jackson’s Art about my love of Unison Colour Soft Pastels and work as one of their Associate Artists. Back in November, I had a call from Helen at Unison. “Would you be happy to go to Jackson’s Art HQ and talk about our pastels?” she asked. My answer was a resounding, “Yes, …
Taking an Online Art Workshop
Taking an Online Art Workshop Like most of us, this last few months has meant lots of changes to the way I work. One of my unexpected confessions is that I am now a big fan of Online Art Teaching! Don’t get me wrong, I love the bustle of a art class and you can’t …
Painting with soft pastels
My top favourite Pastel Techniques and Tips I’ve been working through my favourite techniques for my online Art Classes. One of my most popular techniques has been using soft pastel with alcohol. When I am painting with pastels I use Unison Pastels and Art Spectrum pastel card and Vodka. I like the way that it …
Painting ECHINACEA in Soft Pastels
Beautiful Echinacea Flowers in Unison Colour Soft Pastel Ive been creating Online Draw Along Art Classes, here’s a time-lapse of painting a echinacea to show what we covered in an Art Online session. You can see the final version on my Instagram page. My garden has been a lovely retreat during Lockdown. I’ve always enjoyed …
Sometimes your art day doesn’t go right… thats ok.
Sometimes your art day doesn’t go right… thats ok. “Outtakes 10” I’ve gradually been trying to improve the quality of my videos by trying new camera angles so that you get the best possible view to see me working. You can see in this video that my camera stand had other ideas. It kept twisting …