After learned basic drawing, students can choose to work with chalk pastel or watercolor

Appeared in XVIIIth cent, the.France, pastel became very uses by Impressionists (Degas, Mary Casatt …), who appreciated his opacity and brightness

Gemma F., strumenti del pittore

Its immediacy makes it the right tool for beginning to use color. You can work it faded or overlapped, thus obtaining various backgrounds.

Working from reproductions or from life, students gradually learn to identify different shades of color and its many nuances. A first approach to color that will be very useful before moving on to oil painting.

Silvia H., copy from Munch