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Here’s my 1st pastel
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It isn’t the easiest medium I must confess, but I do like using it to for the occasional still life set up as well as landscapes.
Dusty and a bit messy it is, but that doesn’t deter me.
I’ve seen some lovely detailed work done with it, including on this forum…portraits in particular!
I’m not sure your short headline ‘Here pastel’ means anything to me, what is it that you are asking? If it’s critique then ask for critique, but give us some information and insight into how you arrived at this image… your thinking behind it perhaps…etc etc
I can’t offer any critique on abstract work because I won’t pretend to either like or understand it… but others on here may have an opinion!
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Alan - I pretend to understand it sometimes: very naughty, but one doesn't want to be thought an ignoramus: instead, one has revealed oneself as a hypocrite - oh dear.... sensing an error of judgement, our hero backs away....
I picture your home and studio as a light, airy place, through which you flit with artistic grace: mine is basically one very large room, with kitchen area and usual offices off, in an extension whose construction reveals that jerry-building was not unknown to the Victorians. Stone walls, on which the sealing has long since disappeared, create a huge amount of dust; once you add pastel dust to that, the surroundings can become very unpleasant (they're no picnic to start with, but one has a tendency to stick in the hole one has come to know and furnish). So I do avoid pastel on the whole.
Though - it is good, isn't it? Gorgeous range of colours, ideal, as you say, for portraiture - if I did more of that I might employ pastel more often. I don't know if Rickert was looking for a critique, I thought he was just showing us his first effort with pastels - maybe the Gallery would be the right place, but also maybe he didn't think he was quite ready to show his first effort with the medium there. Who can tell, unless he tells us... he's learned how to blend the colours, which is a good first step. One of our members, Richard Suckling, produces amazingly colourful pastels in which blending is combined with direct attacks on the paper with pure, un-blended colour: there's an approach for you to study, Rickert - using the pastel in bold strokes, maybe fixing one layer before working over it with another, a process you can repeat again and again if you want to. If it offers a slightly different variation, I tend to use Indian ink and add pastel to that - just another way of doing it.
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Richard Suckling is masterful at pastel painting (I call it drawing because it is drawing), so we agree on that one Robert.
It works because he doesn’t blend everything together but leaves passages of sharp colour as highlights etc… but you’ve pretty much said that also…
He’s all about landscapes as well, perhaps he doesn’t do portraits!
For Rickert, I’d say that he’s well worth studying in my opinion!
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by Alan Bickley
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Hi Rickert, its already been suggested you post your pictures on the Gallery so that people can comment. You can also follow artists in the gallery so you are notified when they post new pictures. It's a good way of gaining exposure to different styles and techniques and you can pick up tips. With respect to pastel painters , I would also recommend Shaun Byatt (Shaun Byatt (painters-online.co.uk)) and Michelle Ashby (Michele Ashby (painters-online.co.uk)) both very different but producing excellent work.
Edit - Just noticed you had already posted in the gallery - well done.
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by Andrew Roles
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I must appreciate it. It looks good. That's awesome! Starting with pastels can be tricky, but it opens up a lot of creative possibilities with color and texture. How did you feel while working on it? Would love to hear more about your process! If you want to buy dissertation essay assignments online then you can visit https://www.topessaywriting.org/buy-dissertation here where you will find a professional essay writer who will help you. I have already read reviews of that website and all of them are good.
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