Tuesday, December 18, 2007

pastel pencils drawings


Henry Parkes drawing was mine and Anna my daughters first go at pastel pencils and crayons..hers on the right mine on the left both incomplete as yet..she was 15 at the time and I thought her effort was fabulous, this was taught to us by and 80 year old fellow who only taught himself to draw after he retired..he does shadow box still life and it looks like photographs..if you have your light and shade correct you cant go wrong..I did some more on mine the other night with a few scotches in hand, the next day in the daylight he looked very jaundiced, as I am colour blind and night time work is a no no..cool I can rework before I fix it to prevent the chalk from rubbing off..its a great medium and I hope to do more soon, they can also be used on fabric and set with fabric medium..I love it..

3 comments:

Bernadette said...

Pat you are just so talented I am green with envy!! I have always wanted to be able to paint but I have never tried it. Obviously your DD has inherited your talent.
Bxx

Lesley said...

Well I'll be darned Pat! I have just come across your blog via Bernadette's very nice pastel work girls.

Waterfall Manor quilts said...

Well lesley I have just come across my blog by accident also..didnt think I could blog from here,so here goes..this is my puter,used to blog inside on DH's puter..xx