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I Love Me Some Pastel Artwork

Thu, 25 Jul 2008 01:12:00 GMT

posted by glen1

Yeah, give me some pastels and i will proceed to perform magic...absolute magic...i’ll render a scenic landscape...i’ll draw a perfect portrait...i’ll present you with a colorful still-life that will knock your socks off...all done with pastels.

I love pastels because they are so typical of pencil, and man don’t I love pencils, pastels and their cousin, the pencil are(or should I say “brother”, or “sister”, for you ladies?) dry media, so their not messy, their is no waiting around for them to dry...and get this: artist like myself can even make pastel look like an oil painting. Man, I tell ya, pastel is the best of both worlds...an artist has the dry(pencil, etc..), and the wet(paint) worlds.

Here, look at these pastel art pieces:

A holiday illustration.

Look at this beautiful pastel still-life composition.

And again , observe the wonderful effects of pastel - another still-life.

Lhasa Apso Painting

Sun, 11 Aug 2008 22:22:00 GMT

posted by DawnSecord

I have been working in pastels now for 8 years. For the preceding 20 years I was an oil painter.

There is so much you can do with pastels - it is just amazing.

Dawn Secord
http://www.dawnsecord.com
http://www.artofthedog.blogspot.com

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Fri, 26 Jul 2008 04:08:00 GMT

posted by glen1
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The Art Of Pastel Portraiture

Tue, 16 Jan 2008 09:47:00 GMT

posted by glen1

There is no more enjoyable activity for a portrait artist than the art of pastel portraiture. An artist who uses pastels enjoys both worlds - the world of dry media and the world of wet media. Let me explain why I said “wet" media, yes, a pasteI is most certainly a dry , hard substance, but a skilled pastel artist can make a pastel give the effect of oil paint, which as we know, is a “wet” media or medium. I myself can do this, it’s all about feeling the power of pastel.

Pastels give the artist the ability to produce wonderful effects, and it has one quality only a very few other mediums have: it can be touched, and worked with, just like the finger-painting of a child. But paint cannot be applied without a brush to any effect, one has to relie on his or her ability to handle a brush. Colors can be created and mixed like with using paint but again, success in this area depends on the artist’s skills. And remember you are working with a dry substance, but a dry sustance that has a unique quality and does what colored pencil can’t: mix like paint. In the art of pastel portraiture artists often use this unique quality to their advantage when attempting to exactly reproduce the subjects flesh tones, etc. and other parts of a portrait that stand out prominently. This blending of color is hard to accomplish using other dry mediums. Pastel does have special qualities.

The only way to experience the uniqueness of pastels and gain an understanding of why certain artist perfer them, is to start using this fine. The art of pastel portraiture will give an artist a new found respect for the magic of pastels. Pastels allow one to have both worlds of art: the dry one, along with the wet one. Get involved in the art of pastel portraiture today and enter a new world of color and portraiture.

Working With Pastels

Fri, 17 May 2008 15:01:00 GMT

posted by Sera

I was introduced to soft pastels when I took a workshop offered on www.wetcanvas.com.
I immediately fell in love with them and for the past year have been working with them. With every painting I do I learn a little more.

It takes patience and practice to perfect one's technique and it seems that each painting requires that I learn to do something a little bit differently. Since I mostly do paintings of people's pets I have had to learn to make convincing fur. Then when I start to paint a scene, I find that I have to change my technique just a little so that my trees, clouds and other objects don't look furry.

The most difficult thing for me seems to be water.

I know that I have a long way to go, and any advice that anyone can give me will be much appreciated.