Briley #4

Briley #4, originally uploaded by debifitz.

pastel on PastelMat
private collection
19"X26"

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Briley #3

Briley #3, originally uploaded by debifitz.

pastel on PastelMat
private collection
19"X26"

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Briley #2

Briley #2, originally uploaded by debifitz.

pastel on PastelMat
private collection
19"X26"

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Working from left to right so that my hand does not smear the work I have already done. But I will also work back to forward... meaning that I will do the body around the head so that I can "lay" the head on top of the body. Other wise I have to work up to the edges which is a bit harder to do than to over lap the closer edge.

Briley #1

Briley #1, originally uploaded by debifitz.

pastel on Clairefontaine PasteMat
19"X26"

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Sorry I have been away from my blog for a little bit... I was running around a dog show ring showing my dog and managed to really mess up my knee! Luckily it is nothing a little steroid shot (with a BIG needle!) and a brace will not cure! Big relief to know that I will not need surgery! I guess my dog showing days are at an end... actually not all that upset about this!!

This is a pastel that I am doing for a long time client. They want me to match the background of another pastel I did years ago. It was on suede matt board... "whisper" was the color.. sort of a pinkish gray. When I used to work on that color I had a grumbacher pastel #10 english red that was pretty good match that I used to correct little smudges. So with that pastel and a couple others I worked to get a match. In this photo I have a sample of that board that I put next to it get it as close I can. I think it looks pretty good... hard to get that texture just right. Luckily the pastel will be on the other side of the doorway from the older one... so hopefully it will be fine!

Hope everyone in the US had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Lily

Lily, originally uploaded by debifitz.

pastel on PastelMat
private collection
19"X26"

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Lily Done! I don't know if you can see the difference from #12... but she is darker. And I toned down her highlights a tad. Cleaned up the back ground... it can get a bit smudged while working on the subject... Even if I am careful! I am supper happy with the way she turned out! Hope the client is also.

 I shipped her out yesterday. I have started using a two day shipping instead of overnite. It has just gotten so expensive to do overnite. The only problem is that it restricts my shipping days.... I don't like to ship over the weekends if possible. I like my work handled as little as possible in shipping and I don't want it to sit in a ware house somewhere over the weekend. The only time I have ever had a problem with FedEx was when I shipped over a weekend... the painting got lost for 2 days! Someone had left it in Orlando! Luckily it was a painting and there is not as much worry as with a pastel. Pastels will flake and are not meant to be bumped around... This paper has been doing very well with out spraying it with a fixative. The one time I did spray a portrait on this paper ( Clairefontaine PastelMat), I had to go back an rework a lot of the lighter areas. It got all these little specks and it looked dirty. Then when I researched the paper some more, I learned that you don't have to spray the work. Sometimes I think papers should come with a few instructions!

Lily #12

Lily #12, originally uploaded by debifitz.

pastel on PastelMat
private collection
19"X26"

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Pretty much done.... I want to pull it all together, darken Lily a bit and touch up the back ground.