Tried this in oil, as I don't own any pastels currently. That might change though, with how great they look to work with. Thanks for another wonderful demo, really great stuff

Hello Mr. Weistling, I don’t know if you will see my message but thank you so much for teaching me how to paint, these lessons are incredible, you are a great teacher. This course is great for people like me who don’t have access to good schooling or mentoring. I keep coming back to all your lessons, there always seems to be more to gain from them. I painted this one in oil since I don’t have pastels, 9x12. If you do end up reading this, do you take the inside out approach when doing master studies? Do you still do master studies? I hope you continue adding more to the course, thanks again!

I tried this one in watersouble pencils first for fun and drawing practice then in pastel. My paper size is small so I unfortunately had to cut too much of hat off in order to enlarge the face for the sake of the portrait practice and dealing with the challenge of chunky pastels. Will try it in oils at a later stage.

I really enjoyed this assignment. Your demo was great. What a wonderful triibute to your friend, Pete. I haven't worked with pastels very much, so this was good for me.

Thank you for showing us how you created a beautiful portrait of Pete. I occasionally used pastels years ago, but no longer. My drawing came out very photographic-looking. Not like painting-like you have done. Not sure if it is the issues of edges, or value, or something else. Did I work too much to obtain the likeliness?

This is my first attempt to a pastel portrait. I have very limited colour choices and mostly hardish pastels., but enjoyed the prosess very much.