Hi, again, everyone! Well---I had sooo much fun today with a new PanP experiment painting on an 8"x10" stretched canvas which I had primed with Art Spectrum Colourfix Primer, painted on with a large white bristle brush!!! Ohhh Yum! Works great! So---something some of you might also want to try. Love the texture and the way it handled.
This is the photo I worked from---one I took in Colorado some years ago. And of course, I made some changes since the photo is what I'm working
from not
to! Just inspiration and information!
I took photos of the work in progress, beginning with the sketch, which I did with the small sponge-tipped tool using the Shade of the Raw Umber. I do like drawing with this little tool. Just so easy and delightful to lay in loose though specific composition. So EVERYTHING in this painting is pure Pan Pastels. Not even any charcoal underneath.
This shows some of the first darks I laid in. I wanted to keep the dynamic energies of the subject alive---and also keep the darker areas unified as larger foundations for the medium and smaller color areas I would add as the painting progressed. I found the blues, particularly the darker, richer blues definitely wanted/needed to be laid on with some pressure to get into the deeper texture of the canvas combined with the texture of the Colourfix Primer. You can see some of the variations in the texture which comes from the white bristle brush used to paint the primer onto the canvas.
Below I laid in color to most all the other areas of the painting. Not being fussy. Going after the general impact, first!
I'm beginning to refine now. Experimenting with how to best capture the feel of the brush on the left bank--textures, patterns and the colors. They went through several variations. Actually, kinda like what I had here---but---ohhhh, I kept fussing around! At least I like very much what I ended up with, too.
More refinements---the conifers, the mountains, bridge area and so forth.
The finished painting, again:
And a couple more details:
And then my PanP's when I was finished painting today. LOL! You can see I've really been picking up multiple colors for various strokes---and working pretty fast. The pans clean up very easily---and I've found the bits of 'extras' stirred up to be handy during my painting to 'blot up' on the tool and press on to the painting---or stroke on---for a greater color impact in that spot---and then I've also used a sponge to stroke off the loose little bits of other colors into some of the lids and make some useful color mixes to use. So---so far, none of it wasted. I actually have taken colors off into a lid to mix for some colors that are very important to me---like a dark foliage green: Shades of Raw Umber, Purple and Thalo Green---and then sometimes Black as well.
That was fun to paint! Oh---and I did, at one point, spray this with fixative, rather heavily on the mid-to-lower left side to darken the area a bit and make sure the pigment would have good footing for still more more more pigment, since I was laying it on pretty liberally. I was really pleased with it all. But--ready to get back to working on something that is not so small! And someone is coming over to sit soon for me to do a portrait experiment. Her husband is a marvelous pastel painter. And he is sooo curious about these PanP's, too. More soon! Take good care! Donna ;-}