Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Harley - Pastel
"Harley"  •  pastel,  9x12  •  ©Angela Frame
Here's the pastel version of Harley based on the Photoshop painting I did yesterday. I mixed two different types of pastels - nuPastel (harder pastels for detail on top layers) and Reeves (softer pastels for the underpainting and initial color lay in). I used beige Canson Mi-Teintes paper.
Color palette - nuPastels
Reeves pastels


These Reeves pastels are cheapy ones I bought at the art store to try out - not a big fan as they are extremely chalky and don't adhere to the paper very well. They create massive dust - so much so that I had to use the dust buster to suck up the excess powder at the bottom of my easel. I really like the bright colors though, and some of them I couldn't find in my nuPastel set.