Recently, Jim and I stopped by a Port Townsend framing shop on our way out of town, and there were scraps of matt board for sale, 10 cents each, in a bin. Halleluia. Once home, I pulled out an old elk skull from my studio bins, as well as some shells I'd picked up on the beach in Florida years ago, and did a study in pastels. It took me coming back to it two days in a row, as the sun had to be just right on the glass tabletop. Matt board makes a great surface for pastels. Today I also bought a little stool with a pack under it for street corner sketching, as well as a variety of Liquitex acrylic inks to fill my waterbrushes with for on the go. Watch out world, you're gonna get sketched!
I love the way you captured the reflections and the surfaces of the shells and skull.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Joyce! It took many layers of pastel, then spray with fixative, another layer, etc. Also, iPhoto helped it look even better! But the matt board is so nice.... good texture.
DeleteIt looks very classically elegant.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Roger... sort of like "Drawing 101". Except there should be an old watering can, or a shoe. I thought about calling it "A Still Death in Blue".
ReplyDeleteI really like the title you chose!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Marian. A yummy title for a not-so-yummy subject matter.
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