Pastels and Watercolors (and a few other art media)

[waday]

Those are fantastic!

 

[terri]

So pretty! Did you add the snow to the second one?

 

[SquarePeg]

So pretty! Did you add the snow to the second one?

Not yet but I'm going to as I think the foreground is super boring! The tutorial painting was much better laid out than my effort.

 

[terri]

The tutorial painting was much better laid out than my effort.

Yep, we've had these conversations before! The tutorials I've followed on oil pastels show paintings that are full of details that I am seldom able to achieve.

Still, when you're learning your way around an unfamiliar medium, tutorials are the shiz.

 

[SquarePeg]

I think the snow adds a little something. Thoughts?

 

[terri]

I agree - the foreground seems a little more filled in now. Nice!

 

[waday]

Here’s my Halloween edition:

 

[terri]

This is so cool!

 

[waday]

This is so cool!

Thanks! I wanted to try removing charcoal instead of adding it, but I wasn’t fully successful in what I had planned. But my goal of drawing Poe did come to fruition.

 

[snowbear]

I finally around to the acrylic study. Quick, with no real details but I can envision it in a larger format. One more to go, but I'm torn between charcoal and pen & ink, and if I go with ink, do I go black only, or use the color acrylic inks.

Amazon Music is playing The Dillards, so it's like a trip to Mayberry. The Dillards, along with Denver Pyle and Maggie Peterson played the Darlings, the musical family that came down into Mayberry from the the mountains.

 

[waday]

go black only, or use the color acrylic inks

Use a combination of black and one other color?

 

[terri]

Charlie, with this pretty scene, I like the idea of the colored acrylic inks. But - artist choice, of course.

 

[snowbear]

Thanks, Terri. I like the idea of acrylic inks, though I've never done ink as a larger work.
Here's the last. Pen & ink; I used raw umber acrylic ink, because I don't seem to have any black India ink. My colors are very limited so I went with just one.

The whole set (clockwise from top left): Pastel, acrylic paint, pen & ink, watercolor. Now to figure out which I like the best.

 

[terri]

Fun series! I love raw umber as a color in its own right. Looks great here.

Hard to pick a fave - I like the bright colors from the acrylic paint, but this last one with the inks is awesome! Nice problem to have.

 

[SquarePeg]

Thanks, Terri. I like the idea of acrylic inks, though I've never done ink as a larger work.
Here's the last. Pen & ink; I used raw umber acrylic ink, because I don't seem to have any black India ink. My colors are very limited so I went with just one.

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The whole set (clockwise from top left): Pastel, acrylic paint, pen & ink, watercolor. Now to figure out which I like the best.

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I like the pastels.