pastel on suede matt board
actual size 24"X34"
Actually this is day 3... lots of interruptions! (We are having our shower redone before it falls through the floor! So I have been dealing with tile people and picking up materials... Fun!) But this is probably the hardest part of this piece. Or maybe I should say the most time consuming... those darn dark horses... in this case pony! Luckily my favorite dark pastels came in just in time to help me with this one! I had to replenish my stock after the last few dark horse pastels... been doing a lot of them lately!
Friday, March 4, 2011
Sara Monarch and ZZ #2
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Hi there, you do some amazing work as well! So what are your favourite darks? For a lot of people they are Unisons...for you too?
ReplyDeleteGreat work.
Hi Sophie! Thanks for checking out my blog! I have a few unisons.... I like them for the under layers... but it is hard to get the details with them. I need to get a few more to try... I don't think I have the right ones yet. I am going on a business trip to a Raleigh, N.C, in a few weeks... where the Jerry's Artarama is located... I will go through their stock while I am there. My favorites darks are Girault Brown Lake (265) and Mouse grey (397). And also Holbein Old Rose gray #1... I also like #2 and #3 old Rose Grays for high lights. I love the old Rowney purple grays... Not as crazy about the new Dale-Rowneys... they are a lot like the senneliers... very soft.
ReplyDeleteIt is so interesting. Those Giraults and Holbeins are hard to get in the UK. My ‘workhorse’ pastel is always a Rembrandt. I can do some accents with Schmincke (buttery soft) but most is done with Rembrandts. They are fairly hard but the colours are bautiful and I can layer and layer away. Hard enough to get details in too. I never tried Sennelier...I heard they were very soft. Good for a painterly approach I imagine..
ReplyDeleteHappy Painting!
When I am here at home I have to get almost all of my pastels thru online orders. I use a lot of Rembrandts also. For finer detail my 'workhorse' pastel is the Nu Pastels. The quality has come down a bit since Prisma Color bought them out and some colors are almost too hard. I have tried a few Schminckes... they are very much like Senneliers. But I think the colors are better in the Senneliers... and yes, I use them mostly for background work.
ReplyDeleteIt is fun to here what other artists use! Thanks!!