I just finished watching a video by Daniel Gerhartz--and used his pallette. Amazing , he uses black to mix the wonderful red colors, and prussian green, or blue--few colors, and such juicy mixtures. So I give him some of the credit for the wonderful mauves and golds in her hair.
Well these are the paintings I did when I took the class from Alicia Sotherland, pastel portrait artist. I fell in love with the technique and the softness of the skin tones,and with Alicia's demonstrations on how to eliminate hard edges--and pull the whole painting together. Heard it all before, but like many things--it seemed to finally stick.
My oldest grandson sam, about 5 years old? I took a couple days of a class with pastel artist alicia Sotherland, and this oil painting is beginning to show me how it is possible to cross over from the softness of pastel to oil.
A Young Boy
He was a son of one of the painters in our class, thought he did pretty well with all of us staring at him. That precious age, just before puberty really jumps in is kind of catching the last innocence. But as you can see he was pretty bored.
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