Announcing the upcoming 5 Day Pastel Challenge: Vibrant Still Life with Caitlin Heslop

By Unison Colour

It’s been a little while since our last Challenge, so we’re very pleased to announce the forthcoming 5 Day Pastel Challenge: Vibrant Still Life with Caitlin Heslop, which will be held from Mon 3rd – Fri 7th June.

Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced artist, Caitlin will challenge you to create a vibrant still life scene in soft pastel, while encouraging you to add your own interpretation to make your piece your own, through creating your own still life set up, choosing an abstract colour palette and selecting your composition.

In this video Caitlin will talk you through the upcoming still life pastel challenge. You will get an overview of what to expect over the week, a more detailed explanation of materials required and examples of Caitlin’s distinctive style which she challenges you to emulate in this pastel challenge.

When you join the challenge you’ll also get the opportunity to get 20% discount on an exclusive 16 Half Stick Soft Pastel set that Caitlin has put together specially for the challenge.

The challenge is completely free to take part, held in a dedicated Facebook Group, where you’ll be able to access the daily videos and the live Q&A sessions with Caitlin.

For more info and to sign up, go to

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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.