Pastel artist
I’m Harold. I draw landscapes in pastel, and I teach them in two video courses, with guides, reference photos and printable prints to go with them.
Online course
Video course · 8 lessons
A whole landscape in pastel, from a grey sheet of paper to a finished drawing with sky, road and field.
YouTube
A new pastel video every Friday: roads, skies, grain elevators and the box.
3 videos
Three thin layers of pastel, one over the other, and a thumb to soften the edges.
Starting with the tall shape, then the tracks and the long evening light on the wood.
How to draw a gravel road that goes all the way back, and a sky that takes up most of the paper.
Digital downloads
Download as soon as you pay. Yours to keep.
Fourteen pages showing a sky, a road and a field built up layer by layer, with the colours named at each step.
PDF · 14 pages
Printed lists of the pastel colours to buy for skies, roads and fields, in small, medium and large sets.
PDF · 6 pages
Forty photographs of long gravel roads, fields and big skies at different times of day to draw from.
Digital files · 40 photos
Printed to order
My designs, printed to order and shipped by Printful.
A soft cotton tee, printed to order.
Tee · printed to order
An 11 oz glossy mug, dishwasher safe.
Mug · printed to order
A heavy, warm hoodie, printed to order.
Hoodie · printed to order
A matte print, 12 by 16 inches.
Print · 12 × 16 in
About
I draw landscapes in pastel, mostly at my kitchen table and sometimes from the back of my truck at dusk. I draw gravel roads that run straight to the edge of the sky, grain elevators beside the tracks and wheat at sunset. I started late, after a long working life, with a cheap box of pastels and a pad of grey paper, and I have not stopped since.
I post a video every week of one drawing, from the first layer to the last. What I sell is the part you can use: a layering guide, lists of colour sets, reference photo packs of roads and farm town buildings, a checklist for paper and pastels, printable prints of my drawings, a bundle, and two video courses that are the heart of this site. I do not take commissions. I teach you to draw your own.
Newsletter
A short letter every Friday: one drawing, one tip and one thing to try at your own table.
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After checkout you receive an email with a download link, and the same link is shown on the confirmation page. The guides and lists are PDFs for A4 or Letter paper, and the reference packs are image files.
Yes: caps, mugs, tees, totes and prints with my drawings. Each is printed to order and shipped by Printful, and the cost and delivery time show at checkout.
One every Friday. Every email has an unsubscribe link at the bottom, and it works at once.
A box of twenty-four pastels is plenty, with a pad of tinted paper that has some tooth, a rag and a sheet to rest your hand on. The courses start with what to buy and what to skip.