Conté carres and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Portofino paper (light cream tone, 6″ x 15″), August 2009.
A happy accident occurred a couple of weeks ago when we were at the lavender fields that have featured in a couple of my recent posts. After I finished my sketching there, I quickly took a dozen photos [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Girls Picking Lavender
Posted in Works on August 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More Lavender, Whistler Pastels at the Frick
Posted in Works on August 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Unison soft pastel, Conté carres and pastel pencil on Twinrocker Calligraphy Cream paper (light cream tone, 9″ x 9″) August 2009 .
Here’s a first effort in soft pastel of the lavender field I posted sketches of last week, done on a nicely textured handmade paper from the Twinrocker mill in Indiana. I finished the “underpainting” in rubbed soft pastel last night and fixed it, and [...]
Lavender Field Studies
Posted in Works on August 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Conté carres and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (1st drawing – light cream tone, 9″ x 12″), and Cartiera Magnani Portofino paper (2nd and 3rd drawings – 4″ x 4″), August 2009.
We took a drive out to the north fork of Eastern Long Island two weeks ago on a beautiful Saturday. Our mission [...]
Upstate New York Studies
Posted in Works on August 9, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Drawings (from left to right):
Conté carres and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Annigoni paper (light gray-brown tone, 7″ x 10″), August 2009.
Conté carres and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Portofino paper (light cream tone, 6″ x 15″), August 2009.
We spent the weekend upstate and the fields were beautiful, filled with tall golden-brown grasses [...]
