25th wedding anniversary portrait

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Very skilfully painted with fantastic tonal values Michele. A wonderful memoir.

Posted by Carole Kelly on Sun 04 Aug 16:16:04

Fantastic work Michele - great photographic drawing

Posted by Heather Love on Sun 04 Aug 16:57:29

Thank you Carole it was a challenging yet enjoyable commission to undertake with so much detail at such a small size!

Posted by Michele Ashby on Mon 05 Aug 06:21:41

Many thanks Heather I had an old fuzzy colour photograph to work from and decided to change it to a black and white portrait giving the finished piece more clarity than the photo showed - always a gamble particularly when you don’t know the people!

Posted by Michele Ashby on Mon 05 Aug 06:24:11

Brilliant detail in such a small piece.

Posted by Christine Rogan on Mon 05 Aug 08:38:42

Thank you Christine it certainly was a great challenge!!

Posted by Michele Ashby on Mon 05 Aug 08:51:44

brilliant

Posted by tony palmer on Tue 06 Aug 16:27:30

Hi Tony thank you for your comment!!

Posted by Michele Ashby on Tue 13 Aug 10:19:53

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04/08/2019

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Just black, white and light grey pastel pencil were used to create this intimate double portrait on A4 (210 x 297mm anthracite pastelmat) of a very special day 25 years ago!

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Michele Ashby

Having graduated with a BA (Hons) Degree in Graphic Design Michele forged a successful career running her own business in the same subject for many years. She made the leap to follow her dream of becoming a full time artist 6 years ago and hasn’t looked back. Michele is a Master Pastellist and…

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