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I also brought a small box of Mungyo pastels, a 48 pastel set. You can do quite a lot with just a few pastels but it is soooooooo annoying. It's a major challenge, kind of coding in a turing tarpit language like M4. This figure I did of a model, and she's actually 20, no 30.pic.twitter.com/l4hAYqWj40
Pastels though are so pretty. They just explode off the page and photograph great. Compared to oil and watercolor they're the easiest to use and look the best. It's too bad they're so fragile. Here's the first pastel portrait I did of that model:pic.twitter.com/wI2lIrmw5v
You'll see that pastel is like a nuclear bomb of color. The limited pastel set only has mostly intense colors so you have to work hard to not make them insane. I just went with it on this one, but had to add the very intense blue background to make it work.
Here's the other pastel portrait I did. I worked harder to subdue the color in this one but with the limited palette it's a lot of work. Both of these portraits took 40 minutes, and this time I used a faster blending technique rather than hatching like I normally do.pic.twitter.com/8XjXrMJ0RB
Hatching is where you do tons of tiny lines of pastel, and it takes hours to do a portrait. I like it but honestly for skin it's a lot faster and better to just put down a base of a few colors, blend it into the sand paper, and then paint details and rendering on top of that.
These paintings all use hatching and not much blending. The advantage is much more control and lots of interesting texture and colors. The disadvantage is it takes forever and honestly flesh just doesn't look like that, especially for women. Women like faces smoooooooth.pic.twitter.com/P9yLuoBudo
Tomorrow I'm going to central park to do a plein air oil painting and film an episode of my Pigmented Lullabies show. I'll update this thread when I'm done.
On my last day in NYC I went to Central Park to paint outside. It was FREEEEZZING cold, so the paint wasn't very helpful, but I managed to do this much. I may work on it some more at home and refine it better.pic.twitter.com/58BLq4ae0d
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