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About Me
- Yellow
- The more I draw and paint, the more I find beauty in the most mundane things which we often take for granted.
Readers
Currently reading......
- The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
- Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
- The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
- Poems by Robert W Service
- The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Artist Inspirations
- Alberto Giacometti
- David Hockney
- Edward Weston
- Egon Schiele
- John Sloan
- L S Lowry
- Lucian Freud
- Maggie Hambling
- Vincent Van Gogh
Other great sites
- 1000 paintings - Lisa McShane has a goal
- Ann Lewis - artist and printmaker
- Chris Bolmeier - an inspiration to me
- Ed Terpening - great plein air
- Eudaemonia for all - an amazing writer
- Finders Keepers Art Project - a philanthropic dream
- Gesa Paint & Pastel - pushing the limits in this medium, exciting work
- Ghislaine Howard - powerful charcoal & oils
- Jafabrit's Art - she's the craziest artist on the block
- Jana's Journal and Sketchbook - another addict to skecthing daily
- Jared Shear - art and concepts
- Laurielines - energetic painter & drawer
- Lesley Todd - Bird Ahoy painter's blog
- Michalopoulos - inspired perspectives of New Orleans
- Painting Prints and Stuff - Vivien Blackburn - and so much more
- Pastel - Casey Klahn's preferred medium
- See Be Draw - drawings and advice
- Struggling To Paint - the journey of Chuck Rose
- The Colourist - Casey Klahn - reflections on colour and the role of the artist
- The Red Shoes - Sarah Wimperis' paintings
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- concertena sketch books
- critics
- Dame Dorothy Street
- dance
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- Durer
- Durham
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- Eutopia
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- flowers
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- hand drawings
- house
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- linocut
- London
- male nude
- mixed media
- Moleskine Exchange
- music
- negative spaces
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- not painting
- nude
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- nudes
- oil paint
- oil painting
- oil pastels
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- sketching
- skies
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- soft pastels
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- tagged
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- Tunstall Hills
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Awards
4 comments:
hi steph! i love the roses, they are fantastic - for the reasons casey, your sister and others have pointed out. the scribbles work really well for freshness. if you want to 'structure' more - i wondered if it may not be about the paper and background: perhaps try some pastelboard, make some pastel board (bristol board with layers of pumice/gesso/water mix), and perhaps also some acrylics mute underpainting?
will be watching... :)
Thanks Gesa, the idea of making my own pastel board scaers the heck out of me. I'll have to do a bit of reading. I like the idea of trying mixed media though, which I know is your forte. Thanks for the ideas, and the compliments.
hi, again - even if you don't want to make the board yourself (which is fairly easy: stretch some bristol board with gummed paper on mdf, perhaps apply primer (i usually just use emulsion), and then 1-2 layers of pumice gel (i think golden has a good one, or even the artspectrum diy pastel primers work well), let dry complete and do pastel work... but even getting some pastel board (ie artspectrum) may make interesting change to work on. :)
Thank you so much for those instructions. I need to order some more pastel colours, and I was looking in a Jacksons catalogue at the pastel board primer stuff, so I'll add that to the order and have a go. I love the idea of adding acrylic colour to the primer to create my own coloured grounds, as the papers available are so restricting, but covering them in a base-layer of coloured pastel fills up the tooth and limits the layers I can add thereafter. Keep the info and the compliments coming.
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