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Sue
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12/12/2009
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The last couple of years , the artists and semi artists amongst us have had a go at painting the same picture. is anyone up for it this year
Sue
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belle
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 00:12
Glad it all went well Sue, can't wait to see te results!
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Sue
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 17:14
I will have to photograph the two batik pieces which are to quilt and make into cushion covers. I also need to finish the pencil and wash , but here are the other two
These each took one and ahalf days. I still need to get Eve's left eye right , but I don't think the paper will hold any more pastel
Sue
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 18:17
and now the sunflower batiks, these took two and a half days.
Sue
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belle
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 19:13
I think the still life is my favourite! a very productive week!
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Sue
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 19:23
Thank you Belle, I think I agree. Unfortunately the detail of the sunflower has not photographed well. When it is quilted and beaded round the centre they should look more striking. The pastel is recognisable but I am going to try it again witha watercolour wash and pastel on top. I don't like the background, but once done there is no way back . The picture has a 'torn ' edge and needs to be mounted on white for the best effect
Sue
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blokman
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 21:09
Stll life my favourite, Sue but I also like the sunflowers as well.
If you want any of em framing, nudge nudge, you know who to contact
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Sue
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 21:11
I wonder what you mean?
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belle
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Posted - 03/07/2010 : 23:54
Sue, who ever told you there was no way back with your pastel background is obviously not very conversant with pastels. i have been using it as a medium for 15 yrs and only use it for teaching because it is so correctable and anything can be changed. very light colours can be applied over the top of dark colours, and shades can be obtained by blending two colours together. Unless you have completely saturated the paper, with pastel, but it doesn't look that strong a colour so i suspect that's not the case. If you haven't "fixed" it you can lift colour off with putty rubber or blue tack, (even the dark eyes) then reaply over the top.
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Stanley
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 06:29
This site is a mine of information.....
Stanley Challenger Graham
Barlick View
stanley at barnoldswick.freeserve.co.uk |
Sue
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 10:43
There were several layers already on the background Belle, and it was more a case of my inexperience and every time i tried to adjust iti got in a bigger mess. SDo we decided to call it a day , do a torn edge and then I will mount this on annappropriate colour background which I think will be an off white to match the T shirt . The teacher was very experienced it was me that was not. I redid the left eye at least 5 times by over laying pastel , light on dark , dark on light etc and managed to completely change the shape of the eye. I even titivated it again when I got home, and will probably do so again. However I don't want to spoil what I have already done.. The portrait is version 2 of that photograph and I think there will be a few more attempts before i get the final Christmas present version.
Sue
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 10:44
PS it is fixed because i kept getting the colour all over me and transferring it to places I didn't want it !!!, I did use my putty rubber to lift colour and clean up the picture
Sue
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belle
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 13:42
you can work on a fixed picture, then fix it again but it sounds like you have gone the distance with this one, lots of good experience though!
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belle
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 13:49
Thought this might interest you Sue. Very vivid pastels by Godfrey Tonks, a friend who used to live in the same village as us in cumbria.
His father had a chemist shop in Nelson.
If you look at the link you will see that some of the pics are pastels, when I knew him he only did pastels, and they are very vivid indeed. Now there is paper fully laden!
www.oddyart.com/oddy.asp?page=exhibitionframe&exid...
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Sue
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 14:51
Yes it was fixed three times in the end, but I learned loads, all set now to have another go
Sue
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belle
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Posted - 04/07/2010 : 16:32
Well the fact that you are raring to go is a good sign!
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Are we painting a picture this year
