Heck's closeup

The building is a nice red-orange brick with many variations of color and age. I finally found a nice look by applying large dabs of orange, red and blues.

Heck's Cafe in Ohio City

My latest pastel is 14x11, which takes quite a while longer than 8x10. I was waiting all Spring for the trees to fill in, a great day, and not many cars parked all over during lunchtime. I took out a few telephone poles.

Portrait Sketch

This is Michael, his girlfriend also comes in and draws with us while he usually quietly walks around and takes photos of us drawing.

Model

This was for the Wet Canvas website where you draw a portrait photo they post. This was all pastel pencil.

Jay Street Pastel

The last of the Jay Street pastels, 11x14.

Pastel Landscape

Same street looking West on the other side, 10x8.

First Pastel Landscape

This is my first landscape using the Unison landscape set of 36 colors. This street of century homes is close to where I work, and an early Spring had the trees blossoming. I took a reference photo on an overcast day and light rain earlier. Still a little early for the trees to grow in. 8x10

Portrait of AJ

Here's a new portrait on Miliani paper that I bought since it was on sale and thought I would try. It's very texturey even after many layers of pastel. I usually don't like this much texture for portraits but it does give it a nce look.

Lit Artists

Here's a pic from the Friday I missed. The model is the girl at the far left. My drawing of her is a few posts below.

Misc Notes

Some thoughts on pastels I've used: I really like the Unisons and will be using those with my pastel pencils Faber-Castell Pitt and Conte which are a little softer. The Unisons are soft and creamy.

I first bought some basic Rembrandts - they are hard but I liked the texture look on paper. Almost wish I had a portrait set to try out.

Sennelier are very soft but with a crumbly, grainy feel and make a lot of loose particles.

I see how difficult it is to photograph the pastels. Its hard to pick up all the delicate color and you lose the pastel texture look. I think I need to throw more natural light on the paper.