I got some Lascaux Metallic paints, and haven’t used them yet. (When DO you use metallic paint in an acrylic painting?) I painted samples, and photographed them indoors under an overhead light [left], outdoors in a shaded area [right], and outdoors in the sun [bottom].
Don’t they look cool?
This pastel work, done on an approx. 12×10 scrap of white Pastelmat, was based in part off an image by Somchai Sumnow from Pixabay, but also off of some of my own reference photos of Hawaiian beaches.
Mostly I was interested in the different shades of blue and also how different brands of pastel lay down on the paper. There are some weird diagonal lines, probably creases from the original 19×25 size of the Pastelmat sheet,
And, just for fun, comparing the above pastel piece with another beach piece I did 3 or 4 months ago with acrylics, sand texture, glass beads, and iridescent paint.
After painting the sunflowers in my two previous posts — as much as fun as it was — I wanted to make my flowers more artistic and less symbolic. I was reading blog posts from Karen Margulis, a pastel painter, and was inspired to up my game.
This was done in pastel on a terracotta-colored 6×8 Pastel Premier 4-ply board.
After doing a quickie version in pastels, I decided to a similar scene in acrylics. This was done on 7×10 300-lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper.
Here’s the work-in-progress (right) and the finished version (left).
This was just a quickie because I didn’t have a lot of time, yet I wanted to paint something. It was done on a 6×8 white Pastel Premier 4-ply board (from a sampler set I got at Dakota Pastels a few years back).
I didn’t even use all the pastel sticks shown below — but one thing I would do differently would be to paint the centers last so as not to smear the yellow shades with the darker brown.
This was painted on a 6×6 canvas panel and was inspired by an image by u_co44impxvh from Pixabay.
I did this painting in soft pastel based on an Image by Chil Vera from Pixabay.
It’s on a “Slate” colored 6×8 4-ply Pastel Premier board that I bought some time ago when I trying out soft pastels. (So far, I’m still favoring acrylic paints, but this was fun to do!) The pastels I used are shown at right.
I decided the background was too gloomy with that gray blue, so painted over it with Golden’s Neutral Gray 7.
I used the blurred reference photo from the PaintCoach Patreon site, and listened here and there to the video, but ultimately I decided to go with my interpretation of the colors rather than trying to copy color for color the instructor’s work.
We had a baseball game to go to in the afternoon (for Independence Day) so I wasn’t able to get more done on this painting. However, I have the base colors in for the roses.
I need to watch the PaintCoach‘s YouTube to understand what he did for the flower stalks, and the finishing touches.
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