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"Prince Mallomar Sitting on the Throne of Unconditional Love", pastel 12x12"
For the past four months I have been blessed with the company and love of this sweet, sweet boy! It is good to get back to painting again. I have signed up for the 30 in 30 Challenge again this year and I am counting on it to help me rejuvenate my creative life!
"Both Sides Now" pastel, 5x7" Day 19 of the 30 Paintings in 30 Days! It is really important for me to find times in the day to paint. I am amazed at how good it is for me to be thinking of painting all the time. It is a way of looking at my daily life with thoughts of positive productivity that I hadn't been doing before this challenge. I am thinking... ok, what shall I paint next? Judy
Well, I think it is time for a little pastel technique talk! I often use the term "blending" and I think most of you know what I mean. Blending is means gently rubbing together two pastels on the surface to create a new color. Sometimes we might use our finger or a blending tool to do this, but it is best to let the pastels do it themselves. This is achieved best by using sticks of the same hardness. That is how I achieved the colors of the taffy in this painting. But what is scumbling and glazing? They are both much like blending, but... Scumbling is lightening a color by lightly covering the color with a lighter tint. Glazing is darkening a color by lightly covering the color with a darker shade. Blending Scumbling Glazing Tea Time! pastel, 18x24" I used a lot of scumbling and glazing in this painting! Homework Challenge! Watch this video and re...
Aww, this has such a gentleness to it. Your connection to him is so obvious. Lovely! Glad to meet you thru the 30in30 challenge.
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ReplyDeletePrecious! It really has a 3-dimensional feeling.
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