This is the beginning of a painting for my friend's daughter who I may be doing business with this spring. She is an awesome photographer, she will take photos of children and weddings and I will be offering doing pastel headshots of her photos for a fee . She is a stunning woman I began with her ey...

Better?

LOL, Thanks Carl!

OK people! I get it, practice hands!!! lol working on it! Thank you for all your support! This is my first
real attempt at it. You can see all the eraser marks.

Yolanda

Thank you Carl, I never thought in terms of water run-offs taking up the colors of the surrounding areas. That is a very valuable tip, Thank you!

Hello everyone! I have a question, I am trying to paint realistic water on dry medium paper with pastel and colored pencils. I am having a difficult time making it look transparent. Plus the water is coming out of a city fire hydrant so we are not talking about clear blue water. Any suggestions woul...

Thank you so much Jenn!

Done! Merry Christmas ! Sir Carl, Blessings to you and your family!

Yolanda

Hello Carl!, thank you for the input but I decided not to drive myself crazy so I changed the entire position of the arm.
the color on the other hand is driving me crazy so I will go back to it.
Yolanda

This is a new project hopefully for my art show. Pastel and colored pencils, started the skin tones not done yet. Happy with the right hand left hand is fore short, not too sure about it so I could use some advice on it, I am not touching it with color until I have it right. Oh yes, pastel paper. Yo...

Well thank you both for the encouragement ! To have the both of you consider me an artist gives me courage, Carl I will do that exercise and others till I get this! and you are right E. I have to do better prior planning! Thank you both again, wishing you and yours good health in the New Year and a ...

Hello E. I have tried to make some corrections, wrapping the fingers around the bat. But the ref. photo clearly shows her other hand not holding the bat correctly. I added more brown to the mitt and worked his hand a bit. I think I will be better served if I do pieces that do not have hands because ...

I did this piece in honor of one of the nun's that taught me in St. Joseph's School in Hoboken, NJ.
Sister Jamesanne. She has left the order quite some time ago, but this is one woman who definitely
helped me become the woman that I am today.

Yolanda

Thank you E. ! I think I maybe getting a lens that will take cleaner, crisper photos of my work.

Yolanda

Hello Carl, I did Capitalize the S in Sir.

Yolanda

First off, I hope that your blushing bride is feeling much better. Second, please tell me how you created the grid? While I like both still life drawings I am more drawn ( no pun intended ) to the second one it is more delicate , the first is a bit busy for my taste. E. is correct in that the second...

I think this is clearer .

Yoli

Here is the update E. I also completely forgot to add shadow to the marbles.

Yoli

Hi E. I worked on his hand it looks much better Thanks!

Yoli

This is the completed piece. I am happy with it, I have been trying to work with pastel paper for sometime now, but I find that pastel pencils are a lot easier to work with than sticks on paper. I have been working with a group of artist that only work with pencils, so they have been very helpful. I...