This summer like the last, I headed up to Salmon Lake with my wife for a little vacation, and I again I painted as much as I could. Here are a few of the pastels. I also made sure to document one of them, for a post on my process that I will try and put up later this week.
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You paint during your vacations ? Your wife must be a saint !!! ;) You should rest sometimes even if it's a real pleaser to watch your work...
Edouard- Yes my wife is one beautiful saint. Most of the time she is painting along with me, which makes it double the fun. Painting out in nature is resting for me. There is nothing more relaxing than finding a beautiful setting and spending my days painting it.
Thank you for the comment.
Great series!....each one has an interesting composition, and the way you move that pastel around leaves each one fresh and full of energy.
Great work. I was just curious, how do you go about digitizing your pastels? Your pastels seem to be so clean when you post them. Do you photograph or scan them? Are there any other tricks that you can share for digitizing pastels or charcole?
beautiful .
Man of stone- I use a real nice scanner they have at work for the small pastels. For the larger images, that are to big to scan, I use a nice digital camera. Once digitized I hang the picture in front of me and in photoshop I try to match the colors and contrasts to the real image. That's about it.
Nice landscapes, man!
great pieces. now i'm really looking forward to our trip to the mountains. swiming, chilling, and som pastel and land art creations.
How do you keep the pastels from getting all over the scanner? Do you use something between the scanner and the pastel or do you fix them?
Fantastic! I love the rocks. That'd be great to see a post on your process. Pastels and I aren't quite buddies yet so I'm sure I'll learn a lot form it! I look forward to it!
Thanks for all the nice comment's, I'll try and get that process post up soon, annes.
Man of Stone- No, i don't put anything between the pastel and the scanner and I don't fix them either. I just store them pressed together when I'm in the field and try and scan them as soon as possible. Then they are either hung on the wall or stuck in the flat file. The goal is not to rub them together, and be as gentle as possible. I used to fix them, but it really kills the value range,so I stopped doing that altogether.
I hope this helps, I add a section about transport in my process post.
Fantastic work!!!
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