Alain Picard's steps to pastel portrait painting make it easy for you to paint a realistic and beautiful portrait. Portrait painting is one of art history's greatest challenges, and in this video workshop, Alain gives you the tools you need to meet this head on as he paints a portrait from a photo, step by step, using soft and hard chalk pastels. With lighting tips to define drama and mood, drawing tips and tools that help you assess relationships of proportion and scale, design and edge tools that lead the eye through the painting and refining tools for subtleties that bring your work to life, Alain shows you how to paint portraits and fills your visual toolbox to equip you for success. Alain Picard's steps to pastel portrait painting make it easy for you to paint a realistic and beautiful portrait. Portrait painting is one of art history's greatest challenges, and in this video workshop, Alain gives you the tools you need to meet this head on as he paints a portrait from a photo, step by step, using soft and hard chalk pastels. With lighting tips to define drama and mood, drawing tips and tools that help you assess relationships of proportion and scale, design and edge tools that lead the eye through the painting and refining tools for subtleties that bring your work to life, Alain shows you how to paint portraits and fills your visual toolbox to equip you for success.