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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

A Pile of Pears

'Pile of Pears' 8x10 pastel
We are going to be painting fruit tonight in class so I thought I'd get some practice with these pears. I had fun with these trying a new technique I read about in Bill Creevy's Pastel Book. He has all kinds of interesting things to try with pastels and other materials. For this one, I used pastel pencils at the end to make some lines/scratches on my pears...click the photo to get a closer look. The best pencil was actually a broken one the just scratched and exposed the under layers. I will be trying this again!

3 comments:

Diana Moses Botkin said...

Nice color and composition in this piece!

Karen said...

Thank you Diana! I appreciate your comment. Thanks for stopping by.
Karen

Miki Willa said...

I really like the effect of the pencils on top of the soft pastels. Somehow, it adds so much depth. Nice painting.