Demonstrations and Workshops with the New Derwent Pastel Pencils at The Cumberland Pencil Museum, Keswick.
Professional pencil artist, Jenny Hill, has created a Derwent workshop using the new Derwent Pastel Pencils. Nothing beats the colourful brilliance of pastels but they’re not the easiest medium to use. However you can now enjoy all the beauty of pastel in a convenient, non-messy form. Derwent woodcased pastel pencils have a soft, powdery texture which produces a velvety smooth finish, ideal for mixing and blending. And because they’re pencils, they’re clean and easy to control – although you may not be able to resist the occasional smudge with your finger!
Derwent was delighted to announce the re-launch of its pastel pencil range in January 2010, combining a contemporary new look and softer texture with a rejuvenated range of colours.
The new softer texture means improved performance. The pencil glides across the surface of the paper, transferring the colour with a velvety touch that produces a smooth and full bodied powdery finish. It is now easy to move colour around your drawing, especially with the help of a paper stump if you want to keep your fingers clean! The vibrant and intense colours blend easily to create an infinite number of hues and tints.
May 18th and 19th 2010 – Pastel Pencils with Jenny Hill
FREE demonstration events. The demonstration allows students to explore and experiment with a variety of techniques using the new pastel pencils. Demonstrations start at 10.00. Please collect a ticket from reception which entitles you to one hour’s free tuition. The last demonstration of the day starts at 15.00 and finishes at 16.00.
May 20th 2010 – Tuition Workshop – Creative Textures in Pastel with Jenny Hill
This workshop is suitable for beginners and intermediate levels, who wish to learn the basics in pastel pencils. Jenny will spend the whole day guiding you through pastel papers, coloured backgrounds, pencil block work, and gradually adding in quick techniques to create a picture.
Jenny’s favourite subjects are flowers, animals and British birds and she will explain layering, blending, and many other pastel techniques, helping you to produce your own couple of pieces of work throughout the day.
Workshops run between 10.30am – 4.30pm. £40 per person per workshop. A 10% discount is offered for any two or more workshops booked at any one time.
All materials for the day’s tuition are included in the cost of the workshop. Paper, pencils, fixing spray, brushes etc.., will all be provided per person. You will be working from a tin of 24 pencils, which will give you the opportunity to experiment with light, tone, and texture of the pencils.
For more information and to book your place on the workshop please call the Pencil Museum on 017687 73626.
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Derwent Pastel Pencils
As an 84 year old pastel pencil artist i would love to come to one of your pastel pencil demonstrations but age, not driving and the distant involved makes it impossible. I live in North Wales. I was wondering however if it would be possible to make a DVD of the demo. I would be first to buy it. Thank You. David Davies.
Hi Mr Davies.
The demonstrations aren’t ours, they are done by Derwent at the Cumberland Pencil Museum. We were just announcing them.
On their website you can see what they have on and contact them about any possible DVDs : http://www.pencilmuseum.co.uk/whatson_coming.aspx
I hope this helps!