I promised I would show you the process from this pastel painting. I worked on it about 3 days and that is not good for me. My thought yesterday morning was to wipe it off and have another go over the ghost image. Instead, I brushed off some of the area where the pastel was too thick and some parts that I had overworked and were too "busy". My next piece will be better and with practice my learned methods are returning.
When I don't paint for a while, I forget my routine and halfway through I think that I forgot something and sure enough.......
I started on a Pastelbord that had a bucket of strawberries on it. They were painted from a photo on creativespark and I don't like using other peoples photos.
Because red is sort of a good base for green trees I didn't worry about the shadow image when I wiped it off.
I put on some additional colors and wet it down for the under painting.
I meant to take more photos in progress but you know me. This was about midway through. I had the green too bright and the mountains too dark.
It is always good to look at the painting in black and white, upside down, with a mirror or face it to the wall and look a day or so later.Aspen Memories
Pastel on Pastelbord
14 x 11 inches
I used a couple of different photos for reference and memories of Angel Fire, Colorado and Montana. I'm pretty sure this is done. It will have to set for a while as always, but I really don't like do overs. I'm pretty much once and done.
2 comments:
Thanks for showing your steps. It's an amazing transformation from the colors of the underpainting to the bright yellows. Nicely done!
Joan, you made me smile. Thank you. Yellow is a difficult find and color for me.
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