Compass

cd3000 · #1 04-07-2009, 01:24 PM

This is a piece I did a few years back. It's a combination of soft and hard pastel.

Here's what I used. Starke Ersta paper. Nupastel, Rembrants and CarbOthello pencils.

It's a little different than the average piece posted here, I hope you like it.

Donna T · #2 04-07-2009, 01:58 PM

Hi cd and Welcome to Pastels! You are right - this is different- and I think it's really outstanding! Thanks so much for sharing this and I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Donna

MJGresko · #3 04-07-2009, 02:32 PM

Different is good. I'm not sure what that bluish-tourquoise stuff is but it sure looks cool.

BetsyPriesing · #4 04-07-2009, 02:57 PM

This is really cool looks like it could be a really nice Tatoo!

cd3000 · #5 04-07-2009, 03:17 PM

The that bluish-tourquoise stuff is the blue tunnel people claim to see when they have near death experiences.

Constellation · #6 04-07-2009, 04:13 PM

Very interesting and innovative! From butterflys to a skull is very imaginative and rather exciting. Your painting is so clean and neat and full of things to look at and I'm still debating what I think of it but I do know that your technique is outstanding and I admire your ability a great deal. Show us more. Donna R

cd3000 · #7 04-07-2009, 04:45 PM

Thanks Donna,

Here is another one. It's obviously way different from the above piece but done with a similar technique. This was an image of a Swatch watch that I owned at the time.

Paula Ford · #8 04-07-2009, 05:23 PM

These pieces are just incredible!!!

Welcome to the Pastel Forum!!

binkie · #9 04-07-2009, 07:03 PM

Wow! Very creative pieces! The lines and colors are so precise it blows me away.

binkie

Bringer · #10 04-07-2009, 08:18 PM

Hi,

Great creativity and technique.
You sure have future, I can tell.

Best regards,

José

aolaranora · #11 04-07-2009, 08:30 PM

WOW!!!
Detailes to die for! Great job, love it!

PETE K · #12 04-07-2009, 09:02 PM

Your work is unigue. and very well done. I do like your style and could see your pieces on cd covers and other places. Pete Max look out there is a new kid on the block. would love to see more.

fiannah · #13 04-07-2009, 09:30 PM

wow you are incredibly imaginative! I love them both!

Shawne · #14 04-07-2009, 11:07 PM

I would love to own a print of this piece (Compass). Seriously. This work is so full of symbolism and communicative imagery, and I don't want to stop looking at it. It's breathtaking and truly has a voice.

I've been a pastelist for 15 years doing still life and landscape, but do art more like this kind in oil and acrylic. What fantastic pastel work. I'd love to compare notes, both about pastel and subject matter.

-Shawne

cd3000 · #15 04-08-2009, 01:59 AM

Thanks all for the kind words.

Pete K, I did do one cd cover when I was in art school for Tower of Power.

I have to admit I only did three pastel pieces before getting sucked into computers. I was a big fan of Mary Gran Pre and had hopes of following in her footsteps with childrens books and such. The computer bug bit me hard and I lost the desire to further explore pastels. All my prior art was oil and acrylic so the pastels was a quick fling. I'm looking at pastels again to assist me with my oil paintings but the days of tight rendered pastel paintings are over. As far as I can tell there isn't much money to be made with pastels. It seems to me that any serious gallery is oil or acrylic.

Shawne, thanks. You might like this piece since it's related symbolically to Compass. (Sorry all for posting an oil painting on the pastel forum- I will remove it if it breaks any rules)

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