Best Paper to use with Soft Pastels?
We are often asked which paper is the best to use for our soft pastels. I asked 3 of our Associate Artists for their opinion.
Michelle Lucking
Unison Colour Associate Artist
Unison Colour welcomes Michelle Lucking as an Associate Artist
Michelle is an award winning pastel artist specialising in realism to create large scale, beautiful seascapes and underwater portraits. She endeavours to convey on paper the beauty, majesty and playfulness of water.
Michelle works as a full time artist and lives by the coast in North Somerset, England. She collaborated with Unison Colour in 2016 to create the Unison Colour 36 pastel ‘Beach Set’. She exhibits regularly in North Somerset, and exhibited with the Pastel Society at the Mall Galleries London in 2017 where she won the prestigious Annie Longley Award for her painting ‘Burst Into Flame’. Her piece ‘Hear Me Roar’ was also selected to exhibit at the 2017 Uart pastel show.
Soft Pastel Sets, compiled by Michelle Lucking
Michelle has worked with us to create a fabulous pastel set containing vibrant seascape colours.
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The Art Rooms
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