I did another pastel “monster” this morning. I’m working out some stuff with the pastels to make sure that I’m ready for the art lesson at my kids’ school in a couple weeks. I had these 8 dollar pastels sitting around collecting dust so this has given me an excuse to use them.

My plan is to have a couple simple ideas for the kids to look at as examples for what they can do with animals, and then I’ll do some kind of flower or plant. I’d do a landscape or seascape or skyscape, but the way I work requires a much bigger piece of paper for something like that, and I doubt many of the kids will want to paint nature without any animals in it anyway.

I'm not an extremely experienced pastel painter, but there are a lot of skills that translate from one medium to another and because of that I’m pretty excited about the fun ways I can use these things that I had not thought about before.

If you want to watch me draw and paint a “Monster Frog” from blank piece of paper to the finished image, that process is up on my YouTube channel. Watch it here or click over and watch it there. Thanks a lot.