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Hi everyone, so sorry that I haven't posted anything lately. So, here is my latest work. There is more to it but this is some of it.

Spring Road

Here is another pastel creation of mine that I drew from a picture of a road. The road that I used for this picture was a road that my husband and I drove on to get to the nearest YMCA in Northborough. From the picture, I realized that beauty can be found anywhere, even on the way to the closest public gym in my county :). Anyways, I used many colors to make this drawing, from subtle grays to neon green, my palette had a variety of shades. One of the things I found was hard to do was make sure the background faded away as it got farther away. I needed different values for the different layers of trees found on it. Regarding that fact, this painting took me about 5 hours, and I entered it into an art exhibit at my Art Guild.

Summer Gardens

My friend Fritz sent me his usual photographs of his home in Vienna, a country that I miss very much. When he sent me this picture of his graceful garden pond, I instantly wanted to capture it in my own way. Fritz gave me his permission to do so gladly. As I have been using pastels recently in my custom orders, I wanted to do this for this picture. In all, this took up to 5 hours, in less than one day. I made some changes in my creation to make sure I wasn't completely copying my friend's work. As you can see, it isn't a replica of the photo, I sort of expanded it and moved the angles of it. I liked drawing the water because you have to make it look like there's a reflection and it was cool to experiment with blues, blacks, and even shades of purple. I didn't have a dark green to catch the bright colors, but the picture looked more graceful to me than expected. I decided to submit this work to the upcoming exhibit, where the theme is "Summer Gardens". I enjoy looking at my completed work and I hope many others will as well.

This is a corrected pastel painting. 

I want to thank my facebook artist friends because they gave me great suggestions that made a big difference.

Pencils vs. Pastels

Recently, I created a pastel board on a Canson board. I used two drafts to complete this. The first was colored pencils, and the final draft was made with pastels. My original drawing was supposed to be the final, but I found out that colored pencils were light and faded. It was hard to see bold colors on the horse and rider. I thought of a new solution: pastels. I used pastels on a new board so that they wouldn't smudge. Instantly, I saw better results. The pastels blended well and were bright enough to be seen as a realistic picture, but colored pencils looked like thin crayons with a lot more white space than I thought. I decided to keep the pastel drawing, mainly because of the change in texture, but I also saw some mistakes in my pencil drawing, like the unnatural bend of a foot. Here are the pencil and pastel drawings for you to compare yourself.

This is a color pencil drawing on paper. My client requested that the dogs should see her in some direction. I realized that it is better to draw two heads near each other. I used color pencil to create the colors, ink to fine the details of the fur, faces, and chins. I used pencils to creates the background and shadows.

On my blog, I posted a few of my paintings and drawings. Most of my artwork was for customers. I got a lot of wonderful comments on Facebook and other websites, but not as much from my blog. I think that I should make some changes. I need to try to post more of my artwork. I'd like my clients to feel that they can get the best treatment possible through my services.  My goal is to make my client satisfied with my artwork. Then I am happy.

 

These are pencil drawings for my customers. They were requested and were copied from photos. I used 2B and some charcoal on mix media paper. It took me about 4 hours to make each of them. To help me with shading, I turned the photos into black-and-white, as it is hard to find the values of different colors. 

Here are some examples of my work. There is charcoal, pencil, oil, ink, silk, and porcelain and glass paints.