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Soft Pastels. To smudge or not to smudge?

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By rebecca de mendonca
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Soft Pastels. To smudge or not to smudge?

The quest to breath life and energy into my pastel work

It's a New Year, and the resolutions are coming thick and fast! I love the feeling that a fresh start brings, after a few weeks off over Christmas, It's good to have an exhibition, stand back and look at your work and then have time to reflect,... So the resolutions? 1.To spend more time working from life, out in the landscape, (brrr...), with real people rather than photos in front of me, or out in the fields with horses. 2. To improve my knowledge of the anatomy of horses, by drawing from a life size model of a skeleton, learning about muscle structure, and again, spending more time watching the horses moving and drawing drawing drawing. 3. To enjoy more ways of sharing my love of pastels by developing more courses to teach. So watch this space, hopefully by writing it down I will make it happen. First to find that skeleton....
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Hi Maureen wasn't the cricket just fantastic...our house was in an uproar...the mobile was going hot from Nephew and Friend in England...getting all the excuses today...I brought it up at class but they didn't want to talk about it so I just gloated...so sorry your hip is no better nothing worse...hope you get some results and they can do something about it XX Patsy

Hi Maureen just a quick check in to ask how your hip is...hope all your activities are going good...we have just won the Ashes back I'm stoked

Sorry about previous post had a stutter

The picture looks ok to us we have problems sometimes downloading ours, it can be very annoying. thank you for your comments on my painting & will take your valid advice, also thank you for asking how things are with us.....have left a message on my gallery. We hope your hip is a lot easier.....Betty had a hip operation 4 years ago & helped a lot....its the other parts now....Take care.

Sorry Maureen for the suggestion that you hadn't reduced your picture you did didn't you. How is your hip today I hope it's not paining you too much...my computer has been down all day so here I am at 2am doing the things I wanted to do at 5pm...never mind tomorrow is another day...love the poster

Sorry Maureen for the suggestion that you hadn't reduced your picture you did didn't you. How is your hip today I hope it's not paining you too much...my computer has been down all day so here I am at 2am doing the things I wanted to do at 5pm...never mind tomorrow is another day...love the poster

Wasyour poster a JPEG file yes no problem or a PDF file?

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