Portrait of Isi - Soft Pastel Demo by Lena Rivo

Painted on Canson Mi-Teintes, 12×16 inches. Materials: soft pastel, PanPastel, and pastel pencils. You can download my FREE painting guides here: https://www.lenarivo.com/free-guides I work with soft pastels from a range of brands. Girault, Unison, and Henri Roche are my favorites. I also occasionally use Schmincke, Sennelier, Terry Ludwig, Blue Earth, Earthberry, Nupastel, Rembrandt, and Diane Townsend soft pastels. For fine details and lines, I use Caran d’Ache and Derwent, Pitt and Stabilo pastel pencils. My favorite paper for working with soft pastels is Canson Mi-Teites Velvet: https://amzn.to/3HLP8Es My second favorite paper is Pastelmat: https://amzn.to/4ldaHwc My filming equipment: Neewer Studio Lights: https://amzn.to/4lbTUtj Panasonic LUMIX S5IIX: https://amzn.to/3Tymjzb ✿ Instagram:   / lenarivo   ✿ Website: https://lenarivo.com/ ✿ Facebook:   / lenarivoart   Music: epidemicsound.com