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How to Skumble with Chalk Pastels

“Skumble” is a funny word. It is a made-up word for the way an artist can add texture to a picture. In our video, below, we share how we turned our brown pastel on its side and very lightly and carefully brushed it across the sand color to show the grainy texture of the sandy beach.

How to Skumble with Chalk Pastels yourbesthomeschool.comThe key to skumbling is to use a very light touch, it you try to color too deeply then you will have a hard time showing texture.  You can skumble a very light cloud across a sky, showing a pale cloud. You can skumble across a green meadow to see a suggestion of flowers. Skumbling is a great skill to help you make your pastel paintings more “painterly.” And that, my friends, is another lesson to learn!

Try skumbling, because you ARE an artist!

Art for All Ages: Tips and Tutorials

Here’s what you can expect each of these 10 days! The following links will be live on each day as we go through the series:

  • Your First Easy Lesson in Chalk Pastel Art
  • How to Make Sky and Clouds in Chalk Pastels
  • But Chalk Pastels Get Everywhere!
  • Fistin’ Technique with Chalk Pastels (with tutorial)
  • What is Painterly Effect in Chalk Pastel Art? (with tutorial)
  • Skumbling
  • Train Your Students to See Nature
  • Chalk Pastel Art Tutorial
  • Art is For Parents too!
  • The Ultimate List of Art Fun and Encouragement

Autumn-Hopscotch-2013

It’s an autumn hopscotch with iHomeschool Network! Be sure to visit all the wonderful bloggers! It’s a fabulous page full of categories and 10 days worth of topics!

**Thanks for joining us for Art for All Ages. We invite you to subscribe to Hodgepodge via email so you won’t miss any free tutorials! You can also join us and help spread the word about our 10 day series on Pinterest, YouTube, Google +, Facebook and Twitter. Thanks in advance for helping Hodgepodge.**

Remember….you ARE an artist!

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  1. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful says

    October 21, 2013 at 8:26 AM

    I am really liking this new series of art posts.

    Reply
    • Hodgepodgemom says

      October 21, 2013 at 4:15 PM

      I am glad to hear it Phyllis! We love skumbling 🙂

      Reply

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