Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 6-1/4″ x 10″), August 2008.
I’m currently working on a set of studies using sketches and photos from our recent trip to Maine. These studies will each incorporate the same golden section proportions for the overall format of the pastel and for setting out key points of [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Maine Landscape Study
Posted in Works on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Abandoned Barn Color Studies
Posted in Works on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unison soft pastel on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 4″ x 4″ squares), August 2008.
As the next step in the abandoned barn project I’ve been working on with Casey, I’ve prepared a series of color studies to experiment with different possible selections of colors for the finished landscape. In Casey’s [...]
New Hampshire Meadow
Posted in Works on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Drawings (from left to right):
Conté pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 4″ x 5″), August 2008
Conté carres and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 4″ x 5″), August 2008.
Unison soft pastel, Conté carres and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 8″ [...]
Drawing from Plein Air Sketches
Posted in Works on August 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Arches Ingres paper (white tone, 8″ x 10″), August 2008.
I started this pastel about a month ago and have worked on it here and there since then. For reference, I’ve used a sketch I did fairly quickly while visiting friends in upstate New York. In trying to improve my outdoor sketching, [...]
More Abandoned Barn Sketches
Posted in Works on August 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Conté pierre noire pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 8″ x 8″ and 8″ x 13″), August 2008.
I’ve been working at a new set of sketches of the abandoned barn from Casey’s photos based on the very helpful feedback he’s provided in his critique of my first sketches. These probably don’t qualify as [...]
More Practice at Plein Air Sketching
Posted in Works on August 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Conté carres and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 9″ x 12″), August 2008.
We took a drive yesterday about an hour north of the city to the Teatown Lake Reservation and had a very enjoyable time walking along some of the trails, resting here and there to enjoy the view. I [...]
Abandoned Barn Thumbnail Sketches
Posted in Works on August 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Conté pierre noire pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 3″ x 4″, 3″ x 5″, and 6″ x 3″), August 2008.
On his Pastel blog, Casey has proposed a shared project to develop landscapes using reference photos he’s taken of an abandoned barn near his home. He’s provided some instruction on how the work should [...]
Vacation Plein Air Travel Log
Posted in Works on August 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Kyoko and I have just returned from a week-long vacation and had a very nice time. Weather and lots of driving provided some limitations on the vast amounts of time I had hoped to spend drawing outdoors but I still managed quite a bit and will recount the trip here – in what will [...]
