«Forest Deer»
with Anastasia Seraya
BIG - is a format with long and detailed paintings

Material:
pastel
Number of paintings:
1
Duration:
6 hours
Access:
lifetime
What you'll paint in the marathon

Painting «Deer in the Autumn Forest»
In the marathon, you will learn:
- Build a three-dimensional deer figure in the realism style with a lot of details;
- Create different textures, convey a lively gaze and emotions;
- Work with dry pastel, using various smudging and application techniques.


Let's draw a sketch and start building the deer
In the lesson, you'll:
- Learn how to draw a sketch;
- Create a deer construction;
- Learn to see composition;
- Understand how to compose the deer;
- Start working on the background.


Detailing the background and details
In the lesson, you'll:
- Master the main techniques of painting a beautiful background;
- Start drawing the deer;
- Learn to make a base layer for the wool;
- Understand how to give volume to the animal.


Detailing
In the lesson, you'll:
- Practice the skill of painting wool;
- Learn how to draw voluminous antlers;
- Master the main techniques of drawing an animal;
- Finish the picture with a realistic deer.

Join all three broadcasts to get access to another bonus lesson «British Shorthair Cat»
In the lesson, we'll learn to:
- Draw the texture of fur;
- Convey a lively gaze and emotions;
- Draw a cat in realism style.

The marathon is conducted by Anastasia Seraya

Teaching pastel offline and online worldwide
Started drawing with pastel in 2006
Teaching pastel since 2010
Participant of several interregional exhibitions and organized her own personal exhibition in 2021
Anastasia's pastel works
Which materials we will use for painting during the marathon
- any soft pastel, set of 24 colors or more (preferably Rembrandt, Gallery, Olki, Koh-i-noor, Gamma, or more expensive brands);
- any set of pastel pencils, set of 12–24 colors (preferably Stabilo, Gamma, Koh-i-noor, Faber-Castell, and other international brands);
- pastel paper:
- Black A3 Canson Mi-teintes or Lana;
- Gray A3 Canson Mi-teintes or Lana;
- Gray 31×35 Canson Mi-teintes or Lana;
- Brown or gray abrasive 47×32 Canson Touch;
- Gray 40×40 Canson Mi-teintes or Lana;
- Gray anthracite 24×30 Pastelmat. Can be replaced with Canson Touch or, as a last resort, sandpaper.
- white charcoal pencil General’s, recommended but not required;
- eraser or kneaded eraser;
- wet wipes;
- cutter or sharpener.

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- Number of paintings: 178
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