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.

"Looking at You." Floral Pastel painting.

"Looking at You"
8 x 10"
Pastel on La Carte.


My latest floral painting. This time - in pastel. I tried something new here (again!)
and mounted piece of La Carte to Italian-made panel for oil painting. 
those panels have great absorption and glue quickly
without creating any problems with my paper.
I'm planning to frame this one just like I do with my other works on board - 
without mats. Overall it was very successful experience.
Next time I will try to mount bigger piece. 


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Oil Pastel Society signature status.

This happened to be an extremely busy summer for me...
Our little girl is getting married, our horses are getting new barn,
lot of work in the garden and with my show dogs and I have few great art
events to attend what require extensive traveling...
With all this in mind I still have to make myself some quality painting time...
What I do... but those are mostly nights.
Few new painting are on a way, but mean while my "older paintings"
(what are mostly just 2-3 years "old" or even lesser) still do the job...
Yesterday I received a wonderful news from Oil Pastel Society.

"Congratulations! The judges have found your work to be exceptional and have awarded you signature status in the Oil Pastel Society."

I'm finding it very significant, because just about 3 years ago I found myself completely in love with Oil Pastels, finished my first floral painting and entered it into my very first juried show. It was beginning of exiting journey in the World of Big Art and it all started from Oil Pastels what I conceder my
"lucky medium" and one of my personal favorites...

Thank You to the Jury for this big Honor!..
Tatiana Myers, OPS.

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7th Annual Juried Exhibition of IGOR.

I'm happy to make another announcement.
Yesterday afternoon I received e-mail from International Guild Of Realism (IGOR)
stating that my painting "Orchids in Ruby Glass" was selected
by two separate juries and will be included in 7th Annual Juried Exhibition of Guild
at Jones & Terwilliger Galleries in Carmel, California.
from September 7th to September 30th, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 15th from 5:00 to 8:00 pm

IGOR is planning on having many events during the opening show-weekend
including seminars with several noted guest speakers
and art gallery tour in downtown Carmel.
Amazing show, great artists from all around the World!..
So much looking forward to see it all in person.

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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...