Monday, October 12, 2015

Dear Andy

This is a shitty likeness and yuck portrait. But...it means something to me.  a few years ago I lost one of my best friends to cancer. I have been wanting to do a portrait of him for a long time and after his birthday this year I figured it was about time to try. Unfortunately I didn't succeed well with this one but there will be others. I attempted to write a letter to him in the background by pressing hard into the paper and then covering it thinking that it would work as a resist. It worked very well with the white paper but with the darker paper it didn't show up quite as well. I miss my friend very much, I wish that he could meet my dog and I wish that he would have been around for certain movies and TV shows I know he would have enjoyed. But most of all I miss his laugh and is genuine smile and his brilliant mind. Dear Andy, I miss you.

Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Productive.

Apparently feeling like crap makes me make stuff. I have a sore throat...tired. Between gargles of salt water I sat on my ass and doodled all night.

Now I need a nap before dealing with some pressing family things.  I would rather deal with sickness anyday than a broken heart...even vicariously.

Goodnight for now. Hopefully I will waken stronger.

I need to be strong.

Monday, October 05, 2015

Bluebird

I decided to put a nest in his beard.  Calling it done. I suppose I should try to get better than phone photos...but sadly my phone is the best camera I have.

Saturday, October 03, 2015

Finished-ish

My first two pastemat works. Calling them done. The fish is spoken for. The woman I just finished tonight.
Tomorrow I plan in working on the non-pastelmat surface...but it will be hard going back knowing I love the pastelmat so well!
More experimentation ahead.
Goodnight for now, Bambi Lynn

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Pastelmat

My new paper came in the mail today from overseas. I kept reading about pasteles absolutely love this paper so I figured I would bite the bullet and just buy some.

Wow.

The difficulty with this is now I feel like I may never want to use a different kind of paper when pastel painting. The paper itself feels smooth but it grabs paper better than any of the sand sanded papers that I have tried.

There is a learning curve and I think I will have to plan drawings a little bit so that I do not lose light value, but in general this maybe be my new favorite paper. Which kind of sucks because its expensive as hell! The majority of my playtime I may need to be on different papers... but this is definitely going to be my choice for finished work.

That said I jumped into the below koi fish way quickly because I wanted to experience the paper asap! What you see below is the first session with me trying to learn how the pastels work with the paper.

I am about to start session two. Netflix on,  pastels up...lets do this.

Pans n Pencils

Oh my. It has been a few since I posted. I have kept instagram updated, but have neglected blogger! I have my full pastel set now. As well as some pencils....

...here is what I have been up to...

Doodling here and there and playing with color. Today I have an interview and it happens to be close to a Blick art supply. That will be happening. ;)

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Panpastel eve

Today I get my 80 set of panpastels....this is what I have started with the ones I have.  Maybe by tonight I will have finished one of the portraits!

Sunday, September 20, 2015

My new possible art love.

Panpastels.  LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...it is like a world has opened up with so many new possibilities.  My artistic panties are wet with anticipation at experiment to come.  I got my first sets today.  They sent me a wrong one....but they are all colors I will use...just all dark. So I ordered another set. I cannot wait to play. I think this may be the happy marriage of dry media I love (like charcoal) with the lushness of painting. I want all the colors. But mostly I will be excited to even get black and white!

What will I do first?

Probably....