Drawing From Art with Caitlin Heslop | Soft Pastel Tutorial

In this tutorial, Caitlin will guide you through different approaches to ‘Drawing from Art’ – including quick preliminary sketches done in a gallery, and translating those drawings into longer pastel studies. Additionally, Caitlin demonstrates creating a Cezanne inspired still life set up, and drawing from the set up using a colour palette influenced by his work.

The video tutorial is broken up into 6 parts:

Part 1: Introduction to ‘Drawing from Art’ and overview of different approaches (2 mins 15)

Part 2: Looking at Cezanne’s work and explanation of different aspects of an artist’s work that might inspire you (1 min 14)

Part 3: Time lapse showing my initial study in pencil progress (37 seconds)

Part 4: Talking through example drawing and other example sketches done when visiting his exhibition. This video gives tips and tricks for drawing from art in a gallery (2 mins 56)

Part 5: How to use an artist’s work to create your own still life set up, or recreate as accurately as possible the artist’s specific set up (1 min 15)

Part 6: How to begin your pastel drawing, including selection of colours (1 min 37)

Part 7: Time lapse pastel drawing (21 seconds)

Part 8: Explanation of my process, and reflecting on the successes of the work (1 min 53)

Part 9: How to develop your work even further (1 min 27)