Pastel colours

Soft pastels are new terrain for me. 

I have only used them here because it was given as a bit of homework for a Life Drawing class: practice with colour on 3 dimensional objects before trying to portray the human figure in colour.

Our teacher is wonderful - a gifted artist, enthusiastic, inspiring and fun. Her work is dynamic and beautiful. 

Pastels, especially Unison, are just delicious.

Barkham view

For me, this is a massive painting to make: it measures 80 cms x 60 cms or, in intelligible terms, 

2ft 7 ins x 2ft.

This was the first stage - just a rough stab at getting the composition down and to cover up the huge expanse of white canvas.

This is where I am now. 

Elaine got me to reduce the foreground shadow area.

I am again using 3 colours plus white but Elaine mentioned using a dark orange on the foreground stems so I will bear that in mind.

I've left it for ages due to offstage events and a bug and I hope I made a note somewhere of the colours I used.

Somewhere in Venice

I was on one side of the water and this view was on the other. No idea where or what this area was called.

A watercolour.