Thursday, September 5, 2013

NU-PASTEL

A well-meaning friend gifted me with an ancient box of hard NU"PASTEL color sticks.
I knew I had to have a textured working surface.
I painted acid -free foam core with a mixture of 
Liquitex neutral gray and clear gesso.
The later makes a gritty working surface.


That morning, I had stopped off at neighbor Maggie's studio where she
had been working with stencils. After she fed me breakfast (thanks!)
I headed in to work at the studio.

I found a whole bunch of stencils I had cut from Bristol paper
and textured some of the panels with definite patterns.
Geometric or florid, I think they might peek through whatever I create
 if I scrape the painted surface a little.


The surface takes the pastel well enough.
Started this to see; I've never worked with these sticks before.


Messy stuff, but interesting. A shot down Smathers Beach of a wedding party.




2 comments:

  1. It is just beautiful, love the composition and color. And thanks for giving me one of the boards, it is so pretty the way it is, I'm afraid of it.

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  2. It's just surface and pigments; run and play!

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