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Wed May 07, 2014 12:31 am
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Holysocks wrote:Those are beautiful! I'm playing around with pastels right now, for an art course I'm in. So it's really nice to see yours!

Thank you.
Since you like my work and you're playing with pastels, I'll explain what my teacher told us.
I'm not sure which pastel you're working with, so I'll just say them both.

The soft pastel was all about building it up from the darks to the lights, kind of like painting statues, You can't get a good affect if you don't have your darks, and that means getting really messy and little to no paper showing when you're done with the darks. It takes a while to work through all of the darks and mediums, then it's just some light touch ups, lots of blending, and exploring the lights while maintaining your darks.

With Oil Pastel it's a lot more basic. Layering too much can cause the colors to mix unfavorably so you just have to work with the cross-hatching to help with minimal blending. With oil pastel too, you want to work from one color to the other, but you mostly want to lay it on thick with multiple different colors to create the color you're really looking for, without mixing. It's a tricky business and not one I really mastered.
For the picture of the girl I started out with a light outline of the basic shape, then moved into the mediums, working with medium dark and medium light to fill in my space, then the extremes after that.
  





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Wed May 07, 2014 1:22 am
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Thanks Aley!

I did a soft Pastel picture of a lady in a rain storm...
It didn't turn out too bad, but the lady's dress ( which is black ) seemed out of place, like it needed to be blended... but how would you blend black, when there's a light back ground?
I like Pastels, though. My mom explained that you basically draw every colour you can possibly see in the thing you're drawing.

It's fun. I like it. :-P
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Wed May 07, 2014 1:41 am
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Holysocks wrote:Thanks Aley!

I did a soft Pastel picture of a lady in a rain storm...
It didn't turn out too bad, but the lady's dress ( which is black ) seemed out of place, like it needed to be blended... but how would you blend black, when there's a light back ground?


It's fun. I like it. :-P



Yeah, that's a tricky one. Basically you put her in first, then you add color to her instead of just making her black. Like the background in my first piece, there is a lot more color in the actual art than in reality. There was no red in the back drop-cloth, it was pure black, but I needed something to show the lights aside from gray, so I added red. Same thing with the box. I only used a little bit of real black in the entire thing to pop the darks more at the very end.
  





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Wed May 07, 2014 5:48 am
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Hmm, cool. Thanks for the tips!
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Thu May 08, 2014 11:22 pm
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These are so gorgeous!
You're a talented artist. :)
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Sat May 10, 2014 2:52 am
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Wow! :)
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Fri May 16, 2014 4:36 am
manisha says...



You are an amazing artist! The skull one is absolutely amazing!
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Sat May 24, 2014 9:51 pm
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Acrylics on one of those ceiling tiles you see at school.
  





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Thu Jun 05, 2014 2:09 pm
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This is actually oil paint instead of acrylics, only one I've done.
  





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Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:41 pm
Rurouni says...



You artwork.. Wow. It pretty.
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