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 I love pastels, the powdery feel on your fingertips and working the colours into the paper, blending them to build the dimensions, and getting it just right. What I dislike is trying to fix them with fixative! No matter how I do it, I either lose a lot of the colour through following advice and spraying a light �rain� of not enough spray above the pastel, or I blast or wash the colour off with the spray. Some art is more transient than other art.

I�ve scanned what pastels I have (they are popular with houseguests so they tend to be gifted to people) left in my bag.

This looks a bit like a fruitbowl or one of Carmen Miranda's hats.

Fruit Bowl, a Still Life and the very first pastel I ever attempted. 2001
Yes, I really like Joni Mitchell and Lord Byron.

This was a frivolous play with colour on coloured paper. December 2001
Are you sure you're up to this?

Me drawing on the bed. A study in figure drawing.
Pastel copy of a Modigliani painting, Seated Nude.
I did this picture from memory rather than life, but you have to understand that I know an awful lot of ugly looking people.

An unfinished pastel face, based on a painting in an Albany museum.

This Seated Nude is a copy of a Modigliani which now belongs to Chloe Gallien.
Nice bum! Shame about the face! In the grand scheme of things, I did okay when they were sharing out the brains and good looks, but why do I feel I could have done better?

�Vanity, thy name is....[Kenny, I think!]� Here, you can see as I could that my hair was going on its holidays without me. However, as a model, I was cheap, and not a bad figure to use for figure drawing: I was the most beautiful human being in the room, but also the ugliest, depending on how one might market it!

The sketch took me a few short minutes. ( Well it was cold, and you try drawing yourself from the back in a mirror: it ain�t easy! ) The pastel, I took some time with. The scanner only picks up the middle of the picture, unfortunately, but enough to extrapolate what�s out of shot.
Even wearing Yves St Laurent's latest collection couldn't distract Natalie from her obsession with nasal plastic surgery.......

This was a drawing I did to try to create the impression of a very sheer covering over the subject�s shoulders using light pastel strokes which I�d seen in a portrait.

I never finished this pastel as a picture and it remains �in progress� like many of my projects.

 

Womans Head in Pastel, 2001.

This is the very first pastel I ever did.

Still Life of a Fruitbowl, January 2001.      I really enjoyed doing this first pastel. I�d been given a box of soft pastels  at Christmas which surprised me as I�d never used pastels before. I had to read two books about how to use them before I attempted this sketch of our wooden fruitbowl.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
This is like a dream of mine with enchanted gardens and fluorescent plants...

Water Garden In Green.  I was thinking of the line, �Born with the moon in Cancer....� from the Joni Mitchell song, Little Green, when I did this pastel. I�d bought the paper for use with metalic pen but ended up giving it away to some kids for Christmas cards.

 

 

 

 

Seated Nude, Pastel 2001

This was an exercise in copying a Picture by Amedeo Modigliani.
I love Modigliani's work. Although this pastel no longer belongs to me, this scan picture remains.
 
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