Hay Fields. Pastel study on canvas.

My latest study on canvas panel. Had to try few things here... Generally just wanted to see, how what process will work for me on canvas-covered support... Well, good news - it works fine. Bad news - i didn't put enough primer and didn't get enough tooth for my surface... therefore had to deal with some limitations.

Picture one - finished underpainting - gouache over Colourfix primed canvas panel. Picture two - finished pastel painting. Conclusion: I think I like it, but... need more aggressive primer... OR need to put extra layer of primer next time. It should work better.

"South of France" pastel study.

My latest small work in pastel. I was trying something new (again!) and tasting home-made colored pastel ground. I mixed up some amount of Colourfix and blueish-purple watercolor and applied it loosely on board.

When board dried I did initial sketching with pastel pencil.

Then I used some turpentine and oil wash of manganese-purple and titanium white to establish my values.

Lastly I went from monochrome to full color and finished my painting with soft pastels.

I would change few thing here in there, but I'm happy with my study, it served the purpose and yes -

I like the colored background.

"Yellow Hibiscus". Oil WIP.

My latest painting on Gessobord - yellow potted Hibiscus from Longwood Gardens.
Beautiful plant with beautiful flowers, but I wanted to do something more complicated this time, therefore I went for combination of floral painting with painting of part of it's own frame. I love those arched frames, but currently those are our of my price range, so I'm cheating a little and just painting one.
It will be complimented with nice narrow simple-style Plain Air frame (the real thing!), so part I'm painting will become substitute for the frame liner. Hopefully it going to work...

"French Motif" pastel painting.

"French Motif"
12 x 12" Pastel on board.
Latest 12x12" pastel landscape painting with France in mind. This will be my last work in those square pastel series for a while. I enjoyed it, but have other projects to do and just as simple... I ran out of frames!..
Therefore My next post will be something different. Probably another oil.

"Provence Poppies"

"Provence Poppies"

12 x 12" Pastel on board.

Another 12x12" landscape in pastels.

Home-made surface, oil wash for underpainting.

I feel - I starting love working on this type of board with heavy brushed structure.

Looks like it is working for me well. maybe I would like to use another color for primer...

this one was medium gray. It was Clourfix, applied generously on factory-made

Ampersand Hardbord. Great support for... just about anything You want to put on it.

"Golden Days"

"Golden Days" 9 x 12" Oil on panel.


Small Western painting I did from the reference on Western forum of WetCanvas.com

SOLD!


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"Colors of Provence".

"Untitled"  new in my French series

12 x 12" pastel on  panel.

Latest of my "Lavender" paintings, this time - in pastels. No title yet.
Will conceder any suggestions.

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Playing with pastels...

My latest painting-in-progress, what turned to be very fun project. This is one more "French Motif" painting with lavender fields... but this time in pastels!

I have chosen for it my very favorite square format, what many painters do not like, but I feel it works fine for some of my works... This one is on Ampersand Hardbord primed with Colourfix. Ground has some significant texture to it and I have to work mostly with very soft pastels to get around this little "problem".

Painting is almost finished, but still need some finishing touches.
Hopefully I will have time to finish this one today and then post another update.

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Monet water-gardens, Giverny.

"Monet Pond"
8 x 10" Oil on Italian panel.
This was very interesting painting what I did as commission for one of my clients.

Idea was - to paint a Japanese bridge at Monet pond. I picked up a season of blooming
Wisteria with it's dreamy colors... I hope my client will like it and it will make nice addition to my other 
"French" painting with lavender fields, what he purchased from me earlier...
And for me it just a time let this painting go and start thinking about next one.


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Newest member of IGOR!

I have to share with you, my friends some wonderful news from my e-mail box...

This very morning I found out that I was juried and accepted as a newest member of 

IGOR - International Guild of Realism.

Those are wonderful news, I'm very honored and so much looking forward to work side-by-side with

some of the greatest modern Masters.

I know that I still have a  lot to learn and I want to learn from the best.

 So happy today!..