I would love to be able to create portraits of people and make them look like them. I need much more practice as you can tell from this pastel. First time I have used pastels, the jury is out if I like them or not. Went to my fav store today IKEA bought a dresser for a bedroom, my daughters, she had one but decided it was to old (she paid for it) and a few other goodies, cant leave there without buying something. This week did not enter any challenges, Inspire me Thursday I could not think of one thing. Well I should go clean up a bit, talk to you tommorow.
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Pastels
I would love to be able to create portraits of people and make them look like them. I need much more practice as you can tell from this pastel. First time I have used pastels, the jury is out if I like them or not. Went to my fav store today IKEA bought a dresser for a bedroom, my daughters, she had one but decided it was to old (she paid for it) and a few other goodies, cant leave there without buying something. This week did not enter any challenges, Inspire me Thursday I could not think of one thing. Well I should go clean up a bit, talk to you tommorow.
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I love pastels. They are BY FAR my favorite medium!! So messy. You may try using a paper with some tooth. Even a fine grit sandpaper. It may change the way you feel about pastel. Or not.
ReplyDeleteI have oil pastels and the other kind and I'm not real thrilled with either one of them....but that's just me.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to say....send me an email (in my profile) and I'll give you a couple of tips someone gave me about doing faces.
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ReplyDeleteNot bad for a first attempt.. I'm not sure I like pastels - too messy for me..isnt that terrible to say? But you know what I mean! I am hopeless at drawing people and in fact drawing anything from scratch I find hard! Coincidnece...they have opened a huge new Ikea store here and we went to see it last friday bought stuff I love the place and had to go back yesterday to get stuff we didnt buy on friday. Stayed and had lunch as its a fair drive from our house.
ReplyDeleteI bought coathangers, and two ouside lights called JOD I wonder if we have the same stuff as USA and Canada in our stores.
Don't we all love Ikea???? I don't know anybody who doesn't love to go there! Pastels are fun, I did use them a lot couple of years back .....but only for abstract painting, the portrait thing is to stressful for me, but I wish I could do it too, I guess just not my talent and that is ok. Have fun playing around with the pastels, smiles, Anke ;)
ReplyDeleteI think it is lovely. Congratulations!
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