Tetons Magic. Miniature pastel.

"Tetons Magic"

4x4" Pastel on board.

One of my "to-be-miniature-show-entries" for this fall.

Painted after our 2011 trip to Wyoming. Grand Tetons are behind of my back,

I'm facing nice quiet piece of Wet Lands. Love it too.

This is not the first painting of this spot I did and I'm pretty sure - not last one either.

More to come.

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Tetones in miniature. Pastel.

Just finished this one very small version of Marsh-Land in Tetons National forest.

This one is only 4 x 4" and hopefully will be entered at one of upcoming miniature art shows.

I love to work with those small painting. Lot of fun, yet - very challenging.

Especially in pastel.

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Somewhere in Tetons.

"Somewhere in Tetons"

11 x 14", Pastel on primed board.

Painted this after our last year's trip to Wyoming.

One of those works I had on hold for a while

and finally finished after we returned from Minnesota.

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"Next Level Pastels" Minnesota 2012. Chapter I.

 Just like I mentioned before, his month was filled with impotent events, 

but this  trip was something I was especially looking forward to..

I had wonderful opportunity to join Richard McKinley

and his mentored group of advanced students in "Next Level Pastels"

Plein Air workshop in Minnesota.

It would be very hard to pick up more impressive location. Majestic lake Superior,

rushing rivers, beautiful rock formations and waterfalls - we were surrounded by all those wanders.

Not to mention the forest... what reminding me forest of my native country -

white birch, aspens, lot of light.

With all this in mind it was very hard to choose what to paint.

 I decided not to attempt come home with some finished paintings,

but rather dedicate my time to in-deep sketching process and learning techniques.

In this post I would like to share some of my works on different rock formations.

None of those is really finished, but all those studies
had to offer something interesting and I truly enjoyed working on it.

All works are 8 x 10" and smaller, Wallis paper, mixed pastels.

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...To be continued...

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Pastels in Minnesota A La Plein Air.

 Last week we had  wonderful time in Minnesota painting out with Richard McKinley mentoring his "next level" Plein Air pastel group.

 I do not have much time (normally) to paint Plein Air, therefore it was a very special treat - to get out to some place so beautiful, stay along with nature, paint and get some great advice from person so knowledgeable and talented as Richard.

 I did a lot of quick sketches and even managed to finish one or two more complex paintings. Plus as always took enormous amount of picture for future references. 

 So far I was painting, Jim had great time stacking some rocks here and there.

It was totally wonderful week and I'm already starting looking forward to repeat it sometime.

But now have to get ready some show entries and whatever else I need to get ready for our upcoming trip to Carmel California next month. I only hope for the good weather.

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"Mr and Mrs Smith" wedding Cake.

 Last week instead of painting I was sculpturing ... and baking!

Our little girl was getting married and we were on quest to surprise everybody with

one-of-a-kind wedding cake. Incredibly delicious and well... unique!.. 

It was fun to make and everybody loved it.

Whole preparation process took about a week.

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Out of comfort zone.

"Down to the river" 

14 x 11" work in progress.

Pastelmat.

Just need to do something more challenging... and different.

Because I didn't work with portraits forever, this is what I would like to do this time... for change.

Not sure if this is going to be the final version, or just study for another work, we will see, how bad it will be progressing. I'm alright with it for now, but being a portrait I need all the help I can get with this one. 

So far I'm done with drawing in general, enlargement and background under-painting... just to set a mood. Under-painting is watemedia this time, I will be finishing it in pastel... let see what happen.
The same evening - finished study.

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"Illuminated". Oil Pastel Lilies. Finished.

"Illuminated"

14 x 11", Oil Pastel on board.

Finished and framed. Ready for 2012/2013 show season.

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Progress on those lilies.... Oil Pastel, WIP.

Today I rearranged few things in this painting (some of foliage)

and I think I like it better now.

Look like I pulled it all together to my total like and now just need

 to take some more time and finalize everything. 

I even tried it with new frame I had in mind or this painting.

I custom ordered this one two years ago for my other floral work

 and it turned into a brilliant communication failure between painting and frame...

And so much for talking... Just need to go and finish it.

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Something about those lilies...

 I wanted to do a painting of white lilies for a while... but always something was getting on my way -not the right lilies, not sure how I want to paint them, not sure, not sure...

Finally this spring Irina discovered in our garden this beauty in full its glory.

I went out with camera and soon  I had my reference and my inspiration.

It is going to be one more floral Oil pastel on Pastelbord, mean wile I just finished under-painting

in Gouache and watercolor. I'm happy with what I see here and ready to start rendering in Oil Pastels.