Paste portrait of a young male.

Pastel painting 9 inches x 12 inches $100

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Finally made it to a figure drawing session this weekend after weeks of playing hookey and painting plein aire landscapes instead. We had a new male model with an interesting face so I decided to do a pastel portrait. We only have 20 minutes to capture a quick likeness. I worked on some deep purple, textured stock that our advertising agency had received from a paper company. You have to kinda work in reverse when you are drawing on dark paper. Its good practice for seeing the lights and darks of a subject.

Pastel portrait of a woman in a bar wench costume

Pastel painting 10 inches x 14 inches $200

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In our portrait session this week we had a model dressed as a Renaissance bar wench! What a hoot! She has lots of different historic costumes and comes in a different one each week. This pastel portrait took about and hour and forty-five minutes. Just enough to get a quick likeness and not overwork it too much. I love to watch a human face grow from just a few marks on paper. Luckily, pastel painting is a very forgiving medium. If you don’t get the nose just right, you can rub it down and redraw.