Big Sur coastline. Oil pastel study.

"Big Sur Coastline"

8 x 10", Oil Pastel on canvas panel.

Latest small work in my "California Dreaming" series. perhaps a study for something bigger.

It was a pure joy to work on this small painting, I want to do more...

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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.

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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"From Above" by Tatiana Myers 12 x 12".

"From Above" by Tatiana Myers 12 x 12".

Pastel on Ampersand Museum Pastelboard.

OK. I call it finished. Not exactly what i expected, BUT... this is a thing with paintings - they live their own life and I never know for sure what each next one will be. Probably it is a best part about art. Otherwise it would be just simple replication of reality. 

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"From Above" Update.

"From Above" by Tatiana Myers

12 x 12". Pastel on Ampersand Museum Pastelboard.

Worked some more on my latest pastel. Really want to finish it, but always something getting on my way. One thing after another.

I can only hope after I will finish this painting, it will not look like one big confusing mess. 

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"Waterway with Lilies" by Tatiana Myers.

"Waterway with Lilies" by Tatiana Myers
12 x 12". Pastel on Ampersand Pastel Board.

This is a picture I was hunting for several weeks this spring.. There is a place at Wildwood park where swampy marsh is meeting with open water covered with Water Lilies. Those pretty little things were staying closed every time I go to see them. But one day I got lucky. Place looked picture perfect and I took numerous reference photos and painter "Waterway" after one of those shots. 

Gouache underpainting, mixed pastels and pastel pencils.

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"Water Lily" by Tatiana Myers. Oil Pastel.

"Water Lily" by Tatiana Myers. Oil Pastel.
16 x 20" Masonite.

Finished and ready to be framed!

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"water Lilly" Oil Pastel WIP. Update #5.

"Water Lily" by Tatiana Myers.
Oil Pastel on Masonite. 16 x 20"

I'm practically done with first layer of pastel. Now I'm facing all small nuances of painting. It is getting very interesting and very complicated. I need all the creativity and all the patience. The question would be: "Do I have enough of it ?.."

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"Peonies" by Tatiana Myers. WIP. Update #1.

"Peonies" by Tatiana Myers. 11 x 14" WIP. Oil Pastel on board.

Today I started layering Oil Pastel over my underpainting. I'm working from the top of picture down, segment by segment. Not like I accomplished a lot, but you can see already how oil pastel bringing up color and light into this work. Big difference compare to underpainting.

Also I think I know what frame I may want for it. I don't have this one yet, but still can Photoshop in together with the picture.

"Peonies" Oil Pastel WIP by Tatiana Myers

"Peonies", Oil Pastel WIP by Tatiana Myers.
11 X 14 " Ampersand Hardboard, Colourfix primer
Watercolor and Oil Pencils underpainting.

My latest Oil Pastel project. This will be a Demo pointing for Art and Soul Gallery, I'm going to do it this upcoming Friday, January 29 2010.
I will be working there approximately from 11:30 to 2:30.

The gallery address is 900 Market St., Lemoyne, PA 17043. Call 717-761-1270, or email artandsoul@pa.net for more information

My goal is to show Oil Pastel painting technique with concentration on Oil Pastel as medium only. So all preparation work had to be done at home, before demonstration.

I'm working on Ampersand Hard board with Art Spectrum Colourfix primer and underpainting is watercolor and Oil Pencils.

For finishing of this painting I'll be using full set of Holbein brand Oil Pastels.


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Lady Bug, the Morgan. WIP. (started 3/31/09, finished 12/27/09)

                                                       Above: Lady Bug in mixed media.

Last summer I went to our friends farm where we are keeping our horses and took few hundreds of pictures once again... My favorite one at that day happened to be a portrait of Lady Bug, young Morgan mare, posing for me perfectly on a background of majestic blue mountains. I loved her head shot so much then soon after did my first painting of her in mixed media an now returned to the same reference photo to try it in Oil Pastels. First I did a quick painting with Erengy on watercolor paper, just to worm up before serious work; and then started my painting on Colourfix with Holbein OPs. 

Above: Lady Bug In Erengy. Sketch.

  I used Art Spectrum and some Caran D'Ache gouache for underpainting and very little amount of Walnut Hollow pencils for small details.

Below: Lady Bug in Holbein OPs. WIP.

As usually when it comes to the sky of water, I had to use some Sennelier OPs, because at my opinion they are most suitable for it. Also for details I'm going to use a wash of Neopastels, but I'm not up to that point yet.

Do not pay any attention to her eyes and ears, it is nearly not finished, mostly just an underpainting. :-)

And after few month right before new year I went back to finish some of my old works, including this one. So here is Lady Bug. Finished after all.

 

 

Sakura Carre pastels..."Irish Landscape" Reworked.

Over this week I went trough some of my older works and took a fresh look at them. Some went to trash, others... I just wanted to play some more with those... Like this one. Originally it was done in Sakura Carre pastels. Today I tried to work it over with some soft brands as Terry Ludwig and Schimncke. Then I had to spray it with fixative. Here is two paintings to compare.

Original painting. Colourfix paper, Carre Pastels.

Re-worked painting with Terry Ludwig and Schmincke.

Old barn. WIP.

"Old Barn" by Tatiana Myers

8 x 10", Museum series Ampersand Pastel Board,

Gouache underpainting, Pastel, Pastel pencils.

They usually call this type of things "on my easel". Well, this one is not on my easel, but right on my table on drawing board. Idea is to pains an old barn all covered with show... And once again  I'm a little bit out of my comfort zone for the several reasons:

1) I'm working with gouache underpainting for soft pastel... never done it before. (Don't know how it will work out, hopefully it will. I'm not about to spoil good board.)

2) I do not do buildings. This is a BARN. What is a building. (Scary part.)

3) I do not paint winter. This is my first ever white landscape. With a barn. (Twice as scary!)

I hope I'll get over it and finish it all right. I'm starting to like it.

I'm using Caran D'Ache and Art Spectrum Gouache in very limited pallet and some of Holbein pastels. On this stage you can partially see underpainting and partially - first layer of pastel. 

More work on Koi. Oil Pastel.

Next update from yesterday evening.

Clematis Oil Pastel. WIP.

"Blue Clematis" WIP.

Museum Series Ampersand Pastel Board. 4 x 6 "

Gouache underpainting.

I'm working on a twin-painting to little Oil Pastel "Pansies" I just finished last week. Second painting will be a Blue Clematis. Same size, same frame. I think they will look very nice together side-by-side with my first one. 

Often I do underpainting for OPs in oil pencils. This is what I did for pansies. Clematis, however, will have a gouache underpainting (Caran-D-Ache and Art Spectrum). Picture what you see here is underpainting ONLY, before I started with actual Oil Pastel.

I think when it will be finished, it will be very beautiful. 

Colors of Fall. WIP. Update.

Worked today some more with my fall mini. It is getting to be more and more painting, not a drawing.

I like how colors are coming and mixing together, almost like oil.

Pastels are using on this one are mostly my softest pastels: Schmincke , Sennelier and Kooh-I-Noor.

Since it is so small I might need another painting session to finish it, but not this night. Too late, good time to go to bed.

Cove Creek little fall.

La Carte, 11 X 14 "

Art Spectrum Marine set (40 colors)

Some mixed green pastels.

This is one more Plein Air what I did this evening. It took probably about 1,5 hours of work. My very same favorite area on Cove Creek near with famous Appalachian trail. This time I tried to paint not a creek, but little (and very loud!) waterfall.

 

Running Creek. Last update.

Finished this one and framed it too. For some reason had a very hard time to take a final picture of it. But it is OK.

Far away light. WIP. Update #2.

This is update from yesterday. Our DSL was down for few days, so I couldn't post anything. Hope to work some more on this one this eve and see what happened! :-)

Stormy River. Plein Air.

So called "half-falls" on Susquehanna river.

9x12"
Dark Gray La Carte
Art Spectrum marine set of pastels (40 colors),

12 colors Richerson Landscape

25 colors Mount Vision Thunderstorm Grays

Due me having my BD I treat myself with little get away from Plein Air session. 

Weather was awful and we got in the middle of big storm, but before it hit us, I had about 1-1.5 hours to paint and got some nice colors down with my new set of grays.

So called "half-falls" on Susquehanna river.

9x12"
Dark Gray La Carte
Art Spectrum marine set of pastels (40 colors),
12 colors Richerson Landscape
25 colors Mount Vision Thunderstorm Grays