Thursday, October 20, 2011

Pastel painting in stages


Here's one of my recent pastel paintings in stages.

First I use a reddish pastel surface to work on.

 ... since the Cenote Azul photo has a bright green.

Beginnings are always rough.



In this one, I have added more layers of color...


This stage you can see my bold swipes across pastel surface with different parts of my hand...

More layered color, final details & hits of color... Is it finished??

Or should it be a square?

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