Up: [[Visual Arts]] Created: 2025-06-01 There are various ways to make gradations of colour. Simplest — put down the colour and fade it outward with fingers or a torchon Also simple — two colours can be merged together by fading them slightly where they overlap If doing line work and wanting gradation, can overlay, alternate the colours at the point of transition, or introduce a third colour at the transition that is a blend of the two, such as putting a bit of orange in between yellow and red. Hatching — parallel lines fairly close together done with hard pastel or pastel pencil. They don’t need to be uniform thickness. They don’t need to be straight lines, can be curves. They don’t need to all be the same colour. Hatching adds some liveliness to flat blocks of colour and are helpful for showing contours and angled planes. Cross-hatching — going at right angles to hatches in the same or different colours, done with hard pastels or pastel pencils. You can do multiple layers of different colours. Work lightly but decisively to avoid dragging too much of the colours that are already down.