MAKING WATERCOLOR, PASTEL AND ASIAN- JAPANESE PAINTINGS

Sensing, Feeling, Seeing, Planning, Evoking

One artistic need is to paint what it means to parent. To show in posture and expression children's and parents' life choices.

I often turn to still lifes when I need to hone seeing skills. This particular still life is of flowers I pick at a local farm. My goal is to form beautiful reds.
here seem to be few 'true' reds on the market. Sennelier made a bautiful red years ago. Now that number is used for a brown.

BUILDING THE STILL LIFE
Step 2 - Laying the Textures, the Depths of Color. Checking the Drawing as well.

Layering and Sculpting the Textures to create depth of color, values and feeling

Step 3 - Building layers - might be hard to see some of the changes

Step 4

Step 5

Next steps will be posted Sept 3- 4th. This work is evolving into a story of how light enters the studio. How to make light glowing through an object in pastel is a test! The glads are of course, fading. However, as the blooming blossoms move up the stalk there are still models which can be used for the lower ones which have faded. So much of painting is adjustitng to what is then looking at the whole and deciding what will be the point what should be in the actual picture.
Bumble bees have visited through out this project.

PLANNING A PASTEL STILL LIFE
Step 1- Indentifying the Feeling Inner Warmth
Outer Chill
Choosing the Colors, the Shapes, the Values, the Textures

BUILDING THE STILL LIFE
Step 2 - Laying the Textures, the Depths of Color. Checking the Drawing as well.

Layering and Sculpting the Textures to create depth of color, values and feeling

MY WINTER WINDOW SILL
Pastel