Create a Crisp Circle in Soft Pastel 

Always a lovely feeling pulling off the tape and seeing the finished artwork.

Thank you Emma you're always trying something new, paving the way for the rest of us.

Beautiful, nice to know. Really enjoyed the article the Artists Network did on you and your work.

Hi Emma ,I just watched this tutorial and posted on your Facebook page. I worked in a circular dimension for numerous paintings fairly early in my art career. At the time they became fairly popular and I sold a fair few. Mine were 6" in circumference and were a happy accident. I was doing a painting and didn't like the surrounding area but the main subject was very good, so I cut it out by getting a saucer from the Cupboard and drew around it and therefore stared a very successful time for me. I was the only person doing it and esp in Soft Pastels. I had never used a pastel pencil at that point in my career so they are all pure soft pastels which as you can imagine at 6" is quite challenging at times, how times have changed lol . Sometimes I may occasionally do another circle as in the Ink Kingfisher etc I do not overly worry about getting a crisp circle and may work outside it when planning colours etc ,as none of this will be seen once behind mounts anyway like in normal perspective paintings. I double mount and then put in a square Frame. As usual a great tutorial , I wish I new how to do them properly. It frustrates me not being techy lol

I'm amazed you have any finger tips left!

Beautiful work. How about mounting a scalpel to your compass, cutting the mask on a sheet of masking film. Then you lift up the film from the wax paper it comes with, just at the top, and then use a straight edge to fasten the masking film to your art paper as you pull the wax paper away from below. I hope that description was comprehensible. That way you get a mathematically perfect mask and you won’t have to cut into your art paper.

Emma, what brand of masking tape do you use? Thank you very much for your tutorials.

Emma so beautifull ❤. Have you got this tutorial complet in your Pàtreon?

How do you sign a pastel? I have trouble with a pastel pencil covering, and the soft pastels are too large.