How to Break a Soft Pastel Stick

A quick video showing one method for making those small fur marks with bigger pastel sticks. Don't be afraid to break a pastel. Like an oil painter needs many different sized brushes for this type of style, you need your pastels in different shapes and sizes.
Breaking it won't mean you use that pastel any faster, I promise! I have some of my tiny shards of pastel for years and they come out at important times for detail. Get them messy and broken and used...that's what they're made for :-)
This is a Unison pastel I'm using. They break pretty clean with little wastage unlike sharpening.
For longer in depth tutorials check out my Patreon channel / emmacolbertart .
For the Materials I use see the following links:
Unison pastels:
www.jacksonsart.com/search/?f...
Faber Castell Pastel pencils:
www.jacksonsart.com/search/?q...
Velour Pastel Paper
www.jacksonsart.com/search/?q...

[@mjpete27]

You make it look so very easy! Thank you for sharing your expertise and the simple joy of painting with pastels! I am looking forward to completing some of my own pictures I hope I may share some with you on Instagram? Perhaps one day soon I will have a go and tag you in a post! Have a wonderful day.

[@sayantansaha3427]

Can you please make a video on how to preserve soft pastel painting? Please suggest.. all my art works are spoiling...

[@khawajahumza8278]

Nice work 👏 u should try some pastel pencils for details

[@EmmaColbertArt]

Thanks Khawaja, I do make use of pastel pencils, they're great for very fine detail and moving the pigment around. But there's no comparison to the strength of colour in the mark between the pencil and soft pastel so I try to use the sticks for as much as possible.