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| 'Creekside Neighbors' 16x20 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $250 |
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| the original demo painting as left from the demo |
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| Brushing out the boring tree trunks |
How to fix the problem:
I needed to brush off trunks to restore some tooth of the paper. It would be too hard to put the lighter value of the golden grasses over the dark trunks. I used a stiff and very worn bristle brush to brush off the tree trunks. There was a slight ghost image of the trunks but it would be easy to cover that with new pastel layers.
Once I brushed the old trunks off I simply repainted the trunks making sure that I kept them natural and interesting. It is sometimes difficult to get the nerve up to brush off an area in a painting that you generally like. What if you ruin it! The painting becomes precious. Don't let this happen. It is better to take a deep breath and dive in with the brush and make the changes. Remember....It's only paper!
Have you seen my latest YouTube video? I'd love for you to check it out and see how I paint grasses.
Here is the link:https://youtu.be/n-MNHNxm6y8
4 comments:
That is hard to do at times for me. I am a new artist, I used to sketch when I was younger. Now, years later, I ache to create. Wondered what has kept me from putting imagination to paper. I tell myself all the things that I should. I don't know if it's the fear of facing a blank page, but I think you hit it on the head... What if I mess up, what if I ruin it, placing the paper on a strange level. Odd huh?
Remember....It's only paper!
This is really good advice Karen, must try to keep it in mind.
This is great, Karen. Thank you.
Great demo! It's not a technique I've used often because I'm more likely to just start over with a fresh piece of paper or make changes with what's there. But then I work small pretty often so I'm not really fighting supply issues, it's more a matter of time and effort invested in a given painting. If I do it'll often be months later that I see something else I can do there - but the nice thing about pastels is that it doesn't matter if you do that an hour after it's done or a year later.
It's more that reading your demo, that is its own session. That's all it is. Something I could do specifically sometime just going through older paintings or if I think of a solution to one. Brushing out does work.
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