Portrait of Our Granddaughter as Anne of Green Gables

Alyssa as "Anne of Green Gables" - pastel - 18x24

Last Halloween, our granddaughter wore this costume to her position as cook at a nursing home in southern Maine. She took a quick selfie before work, and wished the family a Happy Halloween. I fell in love with the photo so much that I decided to do her portrait as Anne, just for fun.

Step one:
make a drawing to be traced onto the pastel paper.

Step two:
using Canson Mi-Teines paper, I began adding base color with PanPastels, laying the underpainting and marking where edges were so I could keep the colors separate.

Step three:
Start using adding depth with soft and hard stick pastels.

Step four:
continue adding more details and work on the background with Pan Pastels.

Step five:
Complete the final details with Carbothello pastel pencils. Spray with fixative.

Step six:
consider framing possibilities on-line since we're still in a stay-at-home area.

Hope you enjoyed this brief little demonstration using pastels. It was great fun working directly with color pigments!