well this is the pastel more or less done....

more worked than usual but OK for that I think

further progress

further stages - closer to being finished -

final image is scan so a bit more accurate!

a work in progress!

thought I would test the patience of you all

by photographing a pastel as it is done

to show the meandering way I get to the

end of my various journeys....

obviously a way to go yet...

on Clairefontaine pastelmat

begun with a few traditionsl coloured Conte

hard pastels and a couple of favourite Kremer

colours and the developed with Kremer and Unison

and the Conte to tighten up the drawing...

Kremer Pastels have been a favourite for a while

and I was excited to find they had added over

a hundred new colours and some are so subtle!

so I should get a hand done colour chart direct

from their creator Philip Seymour soon with

all the new colours..... made in Italy

information is available through the London based

www.southlondonartsupplies.com

the oils are out of the shed

have been thinking of dragging the oils out of the shed

and have finally done so - to see how the warpaint

series work in this medium... why?

well the brushstroke is softer than acrylic

and it is easier to mix flesh tones in oils-

I wonder if that is because of the warm tone of the

oil medium as apposed to the clear colourless

binder in the acrylics - anyway....

if anyone has thoughts of relative merits of

my oils, acrylics and pastels do tell -

here or by email......

warpaint

two reasons for doing this study - I am always

fascinated by "small" intimate gestures from

my models - tying up hair, touching their

neck absent mindedly etc - and my model,

after saturday's drawing let me photograph

her while she made up her face - really a

theatrical make up - so I took hundreds of

shots of her doing this....

the other reason is that I think I should be

able to use acrylic in a more painterly way

than I do - almost in the way I use pastels.

anyway - this is a first study....

Thursday morning

I like several variations on this pose-

and this lady has such a natural elegance

that it works well with her.....

Conte, Unison and Kremer pastels

on Clairefontaine Paselmat

digital collage

I suspect I will not get many "hand pulled" prints

done this winter so I am going to do some

digital collages based on my drawings and

messed through photoshop....

I have an A3 pigment ink printer so will

be printing them myself on watercolour paper.

This is the first one I am playing with -

it may be ready to print....

small editions of about 21...