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Archive for March, 2008

Recent Landscape Drawings

   
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 9-1/2″ x 12″), March 2008. 
Last weekend I did some sketching outdoors in upstate New York and, despite very cold and windy weather, managed to complete the drawing at left.  This was done entirely with Conté crayon and pastel pencil, with my materials [...]

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Flower, Landscape Studies

 
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Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Ruscombe Mill handmade paper (light cream tone, 10″ x 13″), March 2008.
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 9-1/2″ x 12″), March 2008.

I’ve had these drawings posted for a couple of weeks now but frankly didn’t know what to say about [...]

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Landscape Studies

 
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Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Sennelier Ingres paper (light green tone, 9-1/2″ x 12-1/2″), March 2008.
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 9-1/2″ x 12″), March 2008.

This weekend I worked on two studies from photos I took in early spring of last year while driving [...]

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Fruit Still Life

Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 13″ x 19″), March 2008. 
I’ve taken a break this weekend from landscape drawings and worked instead on a still life with fruit.  This arrangement was somewhat more complex than others I’ve tried in the past.  With landscapes, in most cases small inaccuracies will [...]

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