5 Day Pastel Challenge: Explore An Evocative Evening Sky with Sandra Orme

By Unison Colour

We’re pleased to tell you about the upcoming 5 Day Pastel Challenge with Sandra Orme, running from Mon 21st August – Fri 25th August 2023.

This 5 day pastel challenge, with award winning pastel artist Sandra Orme, will take you through creating beautiful clouds in an evening sky using Unison Colour Pastels ‘Sky’ set on Pastel Mat paper. You will learn how to use layers of pastel and a colour shaper tool to build stunning cloud effects,  Explore delicate wispy edges, dramatic tints and shades, as well as building sharp and defined cloud shapes. Learn about controlling and managing colours in this technique with ‘the rule of three’ and ‘bridging colours’. This is an exciting and fun challenge suitable for all.

Get 20% discount on Sandra’s brand new Sky 30 Half-Stick Soft Pastel Set, which contains all the colours used in the challenge and Sandra’s follow up workshop.

Each morning there will be a new pre-recorded video ready for you to watch, where Sandra will go over the day’s steps.

The videos are around 10 minutes long and you can fit your painting around work or other daily routines. The only element that is fixed is the evening Live Q&As.

You can share your progress in the dedicated community group for feedback from Sandra and other participants.

There will be people taking part from all over the world so don’t worry about timings. It’s a very relaxed approach with no time restrictions.

This challenge has now run but is available to work through. Just follow the link below…

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5 Day Pastel Challenge: Explore An Evocative Evening Sky

This 5 day pastel challenge, with award winning pastel artist Sandra Orme, will take you through creating beautiful clouds in an evening sky using Unison Colour Pastels ‘Sky’ set on Pastel Mat paper.

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Colour Chart Guidance

We believe the colours in our web based colour chart are a faithful representation of our pastel range. But with any colours portrayed on the internet, there’s a whole heap of variables which mean that what you see, may not be what we see. That said, there’s some things that can be done to mitigate some of the variance.

Mobile phone and tablet screens tend to be pretty good for colour, so they’re always worth using, when viewing our colour chart.

We hate to say it, but cheaper computer displays, including laptops, can be rather hit and miss, in both colour and contrast, so they might not reveal the depth of the colour, as well as the true tone.

If you’re really keen on getting your computer up to speed on colour representation, you can use a calibration device to reach your display's fullest potential.

With all that said, if you think we’re way off the mark with any of the colours then, by all means let us know, and we’ll give it another shot.