Wednesday 29 June 2011

Exhibition.....

Sorry to my one follower for the lack of posts lately.....Lots of dramas & have also been painting madly for this exhibition. The link below will take you to the gallery, then click on Winter Exhibition for a preview of some of the works plus some older pieces. I will post some of the images soon.


Friday 3 June 2011

Pastel Making....

Last week I had my class making pastels. Some were keen, some weren't. It is a tedious process but it seems it is made more enjoyable by company as all ended up thoroughly enjoying it & the wonderful colours they produced.



Crushing & Grinding


Adding liquid
 

Dividing the "dough"

 
Blotting out the excess water

 
Powder...


Dough...

 
Stick !

This is why you were supposed to be wearing gloves!
Lucky it is a non toxic pigment....
 
The finished products & some really useful colours

My colours:
"Scrap Brown" a wonderfully useful greyed brown, already much in use !