Edgar degas pastel techniques handout

To continue our hatching series, we’re going to look at colourful hatching with pastel.

Edgar degas techniques

We are also going to see how you can learn from your favourite artists.

It’s best to watch the video to see the demonstrations, but we’ve also written out the tutorial with screenshots below if you prefer.

Mayko loves to use bold and colourful hatching in her figure drawing.

She is also a fan of Degas, who liked to draw figures powerfully with pastel. So studying Degas is a perfect opportunity for her to develop her skills and understanding.

Lessons from Degas

Here Mayko is copying one of Degas’ pastel works so that she can learn about how he hatched with pastel.

Later she is going to apply the lessons she learns to help her do this portrait.

We don’t have special technology to disentangle the layers and the exact process he used, so she is just looking at the final product, doing her best to r