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bags : color pencil still life
I think the addition of the door moulding really helped to stop that top triangle from taking you out of the picture and keeps your eye cascading through the rest of the composition.
This completes the paper bag triptych and I'm going to have fun putting them together and deciding on the framing. I hope they will form part of my two person exhibition in January at the West Orange JCC. Provided they don't sell before then!
Well this one really is getting colored in fast. But I'm not sure if the matching top and bottom triangles of color are going to work, or whether they will be too distracting. They might end up forming a giant arrow out of the picture, with no way for you to get back in.
I'll have to live with it for a while.
Something new and fun this weekend. Scrumptious Purple Pastel. I combined the purple with powdered sanguine red chalk and charcoal to create this woodland landscape.
I have always been a bit wary of using pastel chalks because of the dust involved, but I found something new at the art store this week - Pan Pastels. I initially went looking for them because the applicator was recommended for using with charcoal, but I was seduced by their delicious array of colors. There is something very satisfying (and irresistible) about seeing a rainbow of colors arranged in order.
If oil pastels are like drawing with lipstick, then Pan Pastels are like using eye shadow. The palette knife shaped tool has a little sponge hat (hand washable) that you can swirl around in the the solid color and then smear on the paper.
Just too much fun to be considered "work"
Phew!
I got a cracking good start on this one today. No interruptions all day.
Lovely.
I really like the warm delicate pinks and soft oranges in the bottom bag.
Such a juicy rich purple and a mouth watering acid green. Delicious. You can see the original at "Artscapes" this summer.
June 24 - September 12 2009 Opening Reception : Wednesday June 24 5 -8pm Artscapes : A Celebration of Summer
Summit Medical Group 1 Diamond Hill Road Berkeley Heights, NJ
Juicy jewel tone colors combine in this oil pastel painting to create a magical realism, where two deer wait in a shaft of sunlight at a bend in a woodland path
Now that was fun!
These oil pastels are such a joy to use. The creamy ones are like drawing with lipstick and they cover the paper so much faster than the color pencil. I have ordered a few more colors to add some darker spots in the background and I need to refine some of the details, but that shouldn't take too long. Hopefully it will be ready in time for the "Summer" show at the Summit Medical Group this month.
June 24 - September 12 2009 Opening Reception : Wednesday June 24 5 -8pm
Artscapes : A Celebration of Summer
Summit Medical Group 1 Diamond Hill Road Berkeley Heights, NJ
Now that WAS fun!
Scribbling about with oil pastels. Blending Scraping Smearing Scratching
I have ultramarine and magenta caked under my nails smeared on my elbows and smudged on my nose
I feel like I am 3 again
Description : blurred and smeared oil pastel captures the magical feeling of wooshing through a tree tunnel along a summer country lane - hope you don't get motion sickness!
Original Artwork : SOLD
I have had this picture in mind for a while and started playing around with a few studies and practice pieces last summer. Now the upcoming show "Artscapes : a Celebration of Summer" has spurred me into finally making the jump to a larger format.
June 24 - September 12 2009 Opening Reception : Wednesday June 24 5 -8pm Artscapes : A Celebration of Summer Summit Medical Group 1 Diamond Hill Road Berkeley Heights, NJ
Hooray! I'm very happy with this one. I really like how the two extremes of light and dark weave their way through the picture. I'm also pleased to have added some new colors to my regular selection - rose carmine, pompeian red and cadmium orange. And some luschious magenta vibrates with the ever-present mauve, deep in the shadows. All these rosy colors make the whole drawing glow with warmth.
I'm not quite sure what to do with this top corner now.
I will make some prints and noodle about with my magic purple crayon...see where it takes me.
I'm very happy with how the light is making the top paper bags glow. I think I will try and extend that through the whole picture.
