Fuzzydragons

Got the soft pastels out the other day and made a mess lol

Haven't used pastels for awhile so need to get some practice in :)

For Sale Yay finished the pastel I was working on the other day. This was for the virtual paintout but I cut it pretty close to the end to get it finished. Love how green it is, but green is my favourite colour. I really need to figure out a way to deal with all the pastel dust. It gets everywhere and is going to stain everything soon if I don't find a way to contain it all. Here is a close up showing some of the details and the colours. I have a very loose pastel style that tends to look better from a few feet away so the colours blend together to create the final image. Linking up to Paint Party Friday :)

For Sale This is a pastel painting down for the Virtual Paintout . This month it is Newfoundland, Canada and when ever it is Canada, I try to get something done for it.  There isn't a lot of roads that have been covered by the Google car, so I really had to do some looking around this month to try to find something that caught my eye. A tiny pumpkin for todays Inktober sketch. I plan on painting something on it, but haven't figured out what yet. A zombie maybe. Or, maybe just paint a basic design on it, but I have a few weeks until Halloween to think about it.

For Sale This month at TheVirtual Paintout the location we have to draw/paint/sketch is the Napa Valley, and this is the scene I drew for it. Last months location was Maine but I didn't get it finished on time to have posted on the blog but will still post it here. For Sale I seem to draw a lot of water with pastels and as much as the style isn't the sort of realism I usually try to draw, I like being able to be as loose as I want with the pastels to give myself a change of pace and not worry about detail.

A badly drawn and badly put together hammer for Everyday in May #3 For Sale And one more pastel painting done for last months Virtual Paintout . This month is an area in Maine, so will have to have a look and see if anything catches my eye.

For Sale This month at the Virtual Paintout , the area was Sri Lanka and I decided to use pastels again since I like the look and how loose I am with them. I don't get bogged down with detail like I can with etching and I like the almost instant finished look with them.

For Sale Another pastel of New Zealand. A waterfall in Napier, was right down from the hostel at the time.

For Sale I really like creating these small pastel paintings. They are a good was to relax after a stressful week. I have a lot of photos that I can use from NZ, so expect more pastel landscapes in the future.

This is very, very loose work for me, and very abstract for me. Even though when using pastels I don't have a lot of detail in my pastel work, I think this is possibly a bit too loose lol Love the colours though and having the colours be the main focus was what I was going for.

For Sale New paper for me, velour paper. I like it, but had to figure out a way to fix the pastel to the paper without any of the fixative leaving spray marks. John to the rescue for thinking of the spray varnish I have. Worked well and didn't change the colours that much, as fixative can or leave any spray marks on the paper. This is a scene at Lake Erie before it started to rain. Can get pretty windy down by the pier, but the view is really nice.

For Sale A pastel landscape of Whanaura Bay in New Zealand. Very green area with very blue water. Done on fisher 400 paper, which I love, but have some new paper to try now. So expect some more pastel works from me. Can use coloured pencils on the new paper too, so going to try that out one day.

For Sale Back to using pastels because they don't hurt my back, just end up with pastels all over my hands and face lol I always forget how much I like using pastels. They force me to work very loose, and I like the result, can't try to be really detailed all the time.

Started on a drawing of Sky :) The background is in pastels, which are very messy and make me sneeze lol This is on fisher 400 paper which as I have said before love but its not cheap :/ So when I buy it, its a bit of a treat to myself :p Going to colour Sky with coloured pencils, namely Derwent Coloursofts. I find they work the best for me on this paper. I would use pastel pencils, but I only have a few and they are not the right colours. Even tho, a red and green collie might look good :)

There are things I like about it, and things I don't, but I'm not very good at self portraits, so over all I am happy with it. It looks like a bad school photo lol Probably should have done it bigger, but I thought A3 would be big enough. I find it hard to get any detail with pastels when working this size so went with a very loose look. This is attempt #3 for the portrait, I could maybe try to get another one done, but besides being due Monday, I'm sick of drawing myself :p

  One of the last things I managed to colour before my hands started to get messed up.I really like this, even tho its very loose compared to other things I draw. If I have to give up using pencils because I can't draw detail, I would just switch to pastels because I can be really loose and expressive with them and still like the end result. 

  Well as finished as its going to be, on to a new pose next week. And I really have to remember to not wear black trousers when using pastels, by the end of class I look like I have gone swimming in pastel dust :p

  The start of a life drawing in colour done with charcoal and pastels.  I was covered in pastel dust, and I haven't even really started on the figure itself. Going to be sneezing rainbows again :p

I have never tried to draw myself before, at least I don't think I have, and we needed to for life drawing class. I need to practice :p It was due last week, and it was done, just missed class due to the chest infection which is not going away :/  I don't sound as much like Darth Vader anymore, but my right lung is burning and I am still short of breath. Really hoping it clears up by Friday, if not, its another trip to the docs.

Still making a mess with pastels but there are 2 horses now. Really like the orange horse, but probably shouldn't be that orange :p