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Post by ktalbot on May 1, 2007 20:51:57 GMT
Thanks Rowen yeah I can usually go a few weeks with very little sleep then it tends to catch up to me and I crash for a week. Funny a few people have said this picture brings that tune straight to their head :-)
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Post by lauren on Jun 15, 2007 13:03:47 GMT
Your pastel work is fantastic! Do you use soft chalk pastels or oil pastels? I've just received a set of soft chalk pastels so I'm having fun learning how to use them, and its been really interesting looking at other people's work It would be great to see the full Darth portrait set!
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Post by ktalbot on Jun 15, 2007 14:33:08 GMT
Thanks Lauren, I use soft chalk pastels, mainly windsor and newton and Rowney. They are fun to work with although you have to be prepared to sacrifice some of the fine details that you would normally be abel to add when working in pencils. I do have a selection of Derwent pastel pencils as well which I sometimes use to add a few finer details. Here are all the Darth pastel drawings together for you.
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Post by lauren on Jun 19, 2007 12:15:59 GMT
Woww!! They do make one heck of a set when you lay them out lext to each other like that. I've just started experimenting with soft chalk pastels, having received a set for my birthday earlier this year. I soon realised how much detail you *do* sacrifice, but the medium is so much fun in its own way. Part of me loves the potential mess of it all and the opportunities for such a range of blended colours.... Its hard to find projects to work on that aren't still life or landscape that I can use to practice! Thank you for sharing your pastel work, it inspires me to keep working with them (even as sporadically as I get the chance to!). (.... and who can resist anything Star Wars related? )
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Post by ktalbot on Jun 19, 2007 12:22:10 GMT
I think the main thing to do with pastel from my experience is to try to work fairly large, all my pastel drawings are at least A3 size so you can still get some detail into the picture but generally you need to take a step back and look at your picture from a distance to appretiate it properly.
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Post by lauren on Jun 19, 2007 12:48:27 GMT
Thanks for the advice, Keith Much appreciated. If I can ever find anything interesting to do in pastel, I might share it!
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Post by ktalbot on Jun 19, 2007 22:08:12 GMT
Also its usually best to work on proper pastel paper which has a texture to it to grip the pastel and I find coloured paper really helps bring out the colours more than plain white paper.
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Post by lauren on Jun 20, 2007 12:46:11 GMT
Excellent! I recently bought some coloured A2 pastel paper, and I have some A4 coloured pastel paper as well.... its nice to hear I'm doing something right!
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Post by ktalbot on Jun 20, 2007 21:07:46 GMT
Sounds like you have all the right materials, one other thing that I find invaluable when working with pastels are my colour blenders, they are basically rubber tipped brushes designed for working with oils but they are great for blending pastels. www.colourshaper.com/
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Post by lauren on Jun 21, 2007 10:08:43 GMT
Cool, I have some of those too! Tell me yours don't stay white.... I clean the residual dust of mine but they are permanently stained!!
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Post by ktalbot on Jun 21, 2007 22:05:22 GMT
Nah they are all a bit stained, they come pretty clean if you rub them with your fingers though.
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