Drawing With Pastels

Drawing With Pastels

Adult Class | Available

All levels welcome.
1/8/2026-3/12/2026
2:00 PM-5:00 PM EST on Th
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Drawing With Pastels

Adult Class | Available

Explore the rich and vibrant medium of pastel drawing and painting. You will learn various application techniques such as blending and cross-hatching to create still lifes, figures, works from photography, master images, and optionally, abstract compositions. Experiment with combining pastels with other media like acrylic, watercolor, and gouache. Use color and design to express your vision and evoke experience. Your subject matter can be whatever inspires you.

Throughout the course, you and the instructor will develop a personalized approach that fits your artistic goals. Together, you’ll identify areas for growth and create strategies to overcome challenges. Each class includes a lecture and demonstration, followed by time to work on your projects with ongoing discussion and feedback. We’ll explore new ways to understand your work and find solutions to any artistic challenges that arise.

What you will learn:
1. How/when to utilize pastel pencil, hard pastel, and soft pastel
2. Color Theory: analogous color, complementary color, contrast, color harmony/cohesion
3. Application Techniques- blending, layering, cross-hatching
4. Linear and tonal modelling
5. Techniques for using pastels in combination with other media (gouache, watercolor, acrylic, charcoal)
6. Approaches to composition

  • • Pastels
    • Soft pastels. (Not oil, since it doesn’t erase well.) A set of 12 or more colors.
    • Hard pastels (optional) such as Prismacolor NuPastel, for detailed work.
    • Pastel pencils (optional) such as Caran d’ Arche Supracolor. It's possible to purchase pencils individually for experimentation, rather than a full set, in addition to the soft pastel set that is required.
    • Paper. Canson Mi-Teintes Paper and Strathmore 400 Series Pastel Paper work well. Clairefontaine Pastelmat is a premium pastel paper.  They all come in pads of various colors. Recommended size 11x14” or larger (can be cut down). Optional: Arches Cover Stock. 22x30” 250 gsm. White, Off White, Cream, Gray, and/or Black. Also optional: pastel black sandpaper.
    • Erasers: white plastic, kneaded, and pink.
    • Blending: blending stumps, make up sponges, chamois cloth.
    • Paints (optional): watercolor and/or gouache tubes and/or pans and brushes. Also optional: acrylic paints; should be used with absorbent ground and/or Fine Pumice Gel.
    • Spray fixative. Get kind labeled specifically for pastel.

Albert Fung

Albert Fung was born and raised in San Francisco. He earned his BFA in printmaking from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1992 and his MFA in painting and printmaking from Massachusetts College of Art in 1996. He paints in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and pastels; often in combination. He also makes prints in relief, intaglio, lithography, and ink jet. From 1993 to 2011, he made and exhibited his art in New York City. In addition, he printed limited edition lithographs and later digital photographs and editions for artists; later, he worked as an IT Director.

In 2003, he began practicing yoga, which through to today informs his spiritual and healing journey. In 2015 he gained his yoga teaching certification from Motherheart Yoga Sangha; and he has now taught yoga for over ten years. Yoga’s attitude of care and seeking has been a significant influence on his art teaching. In 2011, he moved to Philadelphia, where he continues to produce artwork.

He has exhibited widely, including at City Arts Salon; and he has taught at several art centers, including Fleisher, and universities, including Tyler School of Art, in the Philadelphia area. He is currently a Co Founder and Co-coordinator of Philly Crit; and he is a member of the Art Advisory Committee of In Liquid.

His work may be seen at alfung.com