Pastel on Clairefontaine Pastelmat, 13 x 19 inches
Here's my Pastel painting from yesterday's demo at the Sock Gallery in Loughborough. This was how far I got after 2.5 hours work in front of a massive crowd of 6 or 7.........people. I shall probably refine it a bit back in the studio, but the basic groundwork's been done.
I don't find Pastel the ideal medium for this sort of scene, with so much green foliage, but painting the water was good fun, with broad downward strokes of Pastel and a few judicious horizontal swipes here and there. Oil would be my preferred medium to describe such greens of the trees, having the facility to mix so many subtly different greens, rather than relying on the somewhat inadequate Pastel sticks available, but I like a challenge, masochistically!
N.B. I've added an updated pic having refined the painting here and there and added a Kingfisher as just a smudge of electric blue, which is usually what you see if you're lucky enough to see one flash past you.
N.B. I've added an updated pic having refined the painting here and there and added a Kingfisher as just a smudge of electric blue, which is usually what you see if you're lucky enough to see one flash past you.
Hun, this is by far my favourite of yours this year! Please more soft, serene, painterly pastels. Love them love them love them. Did I say love them? Yes I did, just like a do you xx
ReplyDeleteThank you precious DB, I shall do some more painterly jobs, fear not x
DeleteI spent a long time admiring the way you done the greenery and the silky looking water....it amazes me!! And then I read you wished you'd had your oils. While it's true that you do wonderful scenes with oils...this scene is amazing!! Just had to say this..
ReplyDeleteThank you very much BJR - much appreciated!
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