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Lindy Cook Severns
il y a 2j

Une promenade matinale la semaine dernière a inspiré mon dernier paysage pastel

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"When Spring Walks Softly" 12"x9" pastel tendre sur une fine sous-couche de gouache que j'ai utilisée pour tracer ma composition et échauffer les couleurs. Je ne dessine pas en premier, je commence simplement à peindre mais j'utilise presque toujours une sorte de sous-couche, généralement une application simple et légère de pastels durs que je fixe ensuite avec de l'alcool isopropylique. Mais je découvre que des taches irrégulières de gouache ajoutent un peu de texture à ma surface et j'aime ça. Des idées ou des expériences d'autres concernant la sous-couche ?

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Elizabeth Gomes Art
il y a 1sem

Histoires dans le bois

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"Fissures dans mon cœur"

Je crée une série de tableaux pastel inspirés par la beauté et l’unicité de chaque extrémité de troncs le long d’un sentier de randonnée. Chaque anneau raconte l’histoire de la vie de l’arbre. La façon dont ils s’ouvrent pour se révéler en vieillissant et en se décomposant, tout en restant d’une certaine manière créateurs de beauté, me touche profondément. Puis-je aussi m’ouvrir et montrer ma beauté intérieure en vieillissant.

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JbEbert Art
il y a 2sem

Sisters

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These two lively girls were photographed together for chemistry, and separately. I combined references to develop this image. 12x16 pastel on linen
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Lindy Cook Severns
il y a 2sem

When a Painting Titles Itself

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I'm giving away a print of this soft pastel this week and while preparing socials posts and emails for the giveaway, I remembered lightly sketching these yuccas in with a pastel pencil and thinking, "the flower stalks are like those royal guards at Buckingham Palace--these are seriously standing guard over both land and sky. That thought helped direct the painting's progress and dictated the composition of the clouds in relation to the land. Nice when they title themselves, isn't it?! "Standing Guard" is a real place in the high desert, way out in far West Texas ranch country.
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Lindy Cook Severns
il y a 2sem

Maybe not quite a worm's eye view of bluebonnets, but a different way to show them

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As a Texas landscape painter, it's almost a sin not to paint bluebonnets, but I try to find different ways to show these beauties. While "normal" bluebonnets are a foot tall or less, the Big Bend desert variety grow up to four feet tall, making them show-stoppers. Here, while an entire mesa was covered with blue, I chose to show only a cluster shooting into the sky in the immediate foreground. I lay on my belly to take my reference photo-- but only after carefully checking for snakes, scorpions and hidden cactus. It's hard work, but somebody's gotta do it! "Tall Texas Blues" is one of my first bluebonnet landscapes, a 9" x 12" soft pastel (on Kitty Wallis Museum Grade paper, an old standby I no longer use because they quit manufacturing it).
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Mary Planding
il y a 3sem

Pure Gold [soft pastel, 8"x16"]

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Having spent most of my life living along the Monterey Bay in California, the most extraordinary sunsets simply take your breath away. Most of the time there's a fog bank that hovers off the coast, which rolls in on time so we don't need air conditioning all summer long. But occasionally there's a day when the the fog stays away long enough for the sun to drench the sky and cliffs in the most incredible imaginable colors. Pure Gold captures that one evening many years ago that left me spellbound. How about you?
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JbEbert Art
il y a 3sem

Sisters

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A commission of two sisters. I photographed then together and separately and blended references to get this composition.
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Twinky @ Woodland Walks Studio
il y a 3sem

Early work

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My 3 beautiful daughters have always been a source of inspiration! As my work in pastels has progressed more recently, I am less fearful of employing color and looser, more expressive strokes.... always a work in progress.
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Twinky @ Woodland Walks Studio
il y a 3sem

We Have A Pastel Community!! Thank you!!

After basic drawing, my first use of color was with pastels...and I could not imagine anything more wonderful until I started with oils, and never looked back for nearly 20 years. My daughter's cancer care and Covid brought me back to pastels and I am hooked once again. The luscious feel, the immediacy, the fine nuances that can be achieved have me enjoying them more than ever before., for studies and final works alike. Now if only I could have the time to use ALL the mediums to the extent I would want - but there are only 24 hours in a day with no guarantees of a tomorrow, so those "tough choices" will be there always.

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