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Author: Gaka, Contributing Editor
| Hi Everyone!
This is a Work In Progress (WIP) that I have documented in detail as it emerges day by day giving the viewer an insight into the process and procedure that I use to complete a photo realism pastel painting. I hope you'll find the Question and Answer format interesting. They were taken from the thread posted in the WC! Pastel Forum where I responded to questions that were asked regarding pastels and the WIP. A link to the thread is included at the end of this article. I hope the images of daily progress are clear enough for you to see the detail and process that I use to paint my Pastel Photo realism. |
 | This is being painted on the smooth side or the rear side of a half sheet of grey/green Canson pastel paper. In the image to the left, I am laying down the background base of greens and grey/blue. I have my pastel dust on a palette and I am applying the dust with a tissue which has been folded to about a 1 inch-25mm square. It does not matter if I go over the edge of the pencil drawings of the birds a little because I can still see it through the dust. You can see where I have cleaned the background dust off the first set of birds, but the second set has not been done yet. |
| In the image on the right, I have cleaned all of the dust off the drawings of the birds and am now proceeding to lay down a basic tonal range of dust which will be my base for my painting and give me a guide as to where everything is going to be. This has taken me 4 hrs to this point; laying in the background, cleaning up the bird images, re-drawing where needed and starting to lay my bases down.
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 | To the left is a picture of my art equipment workbox/palette. You can see where I have layed out my colored dusts on the palette and I have written the number of the colors next to each colored dust just in case I get confused as to which color I was using or I mix up my pastel sticks. Lying beside each color is the cotton bud/Q-tip that I am using just for that color and I also put the pastel stick near its respective colored dust. You can also see my pink and white cotton buds/Q-tips, files for sharpening, a blue handled file cleaner and my pastel storage…sorry about the hairy knee!!!!!
End of day one and 4 hours |
| Q....Tell me, do you fix after the base colors? I'm wondering how well it stays there when you go to do the next layers.
A....I have used fixitive once in 10/12 years of painting pastels and that was on a 2in-50mm square, I can't see the need for it or I don't have any use for it in the work that I do. The dust base stays there quite well. I suggest that you rub some pastel onto some paper to get some dust, then with a tissue apply that dust thinly to some pastel paper working it well into the paper. Then rub your fingers across the dust and see just how much dust comes of the paper. Now if you wanted to put a different color over that dust then you would have a problem as the two different colored dusts would mix, changing the base color. I put the right base color down first so I do not have to put a different color over it other than the same range as the base color. Q....Do you make mistakes and if so, how do you fix them? A...."Do I make mistakes"; do I have to answer????? Of course I do, but rarely! Most of them can be easily corrected/adjusted or I rub the mistake off with a sharp pointed rubber and re-dust and re-work the area. Q....Do you use anything as a guide? Say for that lovely straight line? How did you do the line that they are perched on? Was it freehand or mechanically produced - i.e some sort of straight edge? A....If I drew the straight line in pencil with a ruler, then I could have painted it in pastel freehand...but it would take too long. So to speed things up I used the ruler and a sharpened pastel to draw the edges of the line and then pushed these lines into the paper with a color shaper and then filled in between the lines. |
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