LovetoPastel
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| 03/25/2008 1:11 PM |
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| This has taken me forever! I'm not sure on the lens of the turn signal. I really just suggested it and not put the detail I usually do in it and now I'm worried it is not up to par with the rest of the painting. What does everyone think? It is done on black colorfix pastel paper and is pretty much the size of the whole sheet 20X28 -ish I will probably leave it for a while as I'm SO ready to move onto something new!... Now to just figure out what. |
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mikec@pols
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| 03/25/2008 3:34 PM |
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GEEZE! Are you kidding me? This is fantastic! I can NOT see a thing wrong with this, Suzanne. No where, no how. This is absolutely amazing, just as is all of your work...
Can you teach me? Huh, huh? Can you teach me?
Really, this is beautiful!
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pastelmimigt
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| 03/25/2008 7:01 PM |
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Hi Suzanne,
This is beautiful work. I'm not sure where the turn signal is to let you know what I think. Is it the darker red to the left of the top of the headlight?
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jjjbird
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| 03/25/2008 7:23 PM |
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| Incredible! Motivates me to keep trying harder.Please, don't worry about the turn signal. I would be happy to just do that part that well. jjj |
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Jim
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| 03/25/2008 10:55 PM |
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We're not worthy!!!
This is great! What more can you say?!!
This detail, this crispness in pastels???
Just the headlight lens would have put me
in the funny farm!!
I bow to your patience and skill.
Jim
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iglazier
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| 03/25/2008 11:20 PM |
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 I love this. Its so beautiful. The reds are what seems to me to be the hard part, but you have them together so wonderful! That is a great surface to work on, isn't it. And the size! Wow. to make some thing so beautiful in this size, it looks wonderful, the compostion is great. I really would like to learn form you as well. Do you use the fixitive between layers? That black paper seems to really let the red shine. Put this in every show you can and let us know how you do, great I am sure. Thanks! Put it on 'Wetcanvas, too! |
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LovetoPastel
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| 03/26/2008 8:23 AM |
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The lens of the head light nearly DID put me in the funny farm!!! Believe it or not I had to pick and choose the detail to put in. I saw so much...There is ALOT left out of that headlight and in the reflections in the chrome.
Ida...I was so worried about the dust from the reds contaminating the rest of the piece that I did the headlight and bumper first and tipped the painting upside down to put the reds in. I do not fix my work. I try so hard to get the colors the way I want them that I'm afraid of how the fixative might change them. The 'Black' you see is actaully a very, very deep navy from Girault pastels. The entire surface is covered. I'm thinking the richness of that deep blue helps to punch up the red? Pure black may have cut the intensity to much?
Thank you everyone for your wonderful comments!!!... |
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gene
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| 03/26/2008 1:28 PM |
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I agree with all the others. This is beautiful.
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Maggie429
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| 03/27/2008 9:25 AM |
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| Absolutely beautiful. Great details. Perfect. |
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mrking
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| 03/27/2008 10:34 AM |
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Very nice. Clean and smooth. I bet it looks great in person.
Do you have any work in progress photographs at all? |
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LovetoPastel
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| 03/27/2008 5:46 PM |
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| mrking... I do have one I took somewhere in the middle... Why do you ask? |
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AliciaS
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| 03/28/2008 9:26 AM |
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this looks quite finished to me..move on to something else!! Frame it and call it done..
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1Painter42
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| 03/29/2008 10:38 PM |
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Suzanne,
You are the master of shine and reflection. I think you did a great job. My husband would go berserk over it, being the car man that he is (he's built them, raced them, traded them, GM retiree, etc.) He's always suggesting that I do a painting (or more ) of old cars, but so far I've resisted for more organic subjects. I am thinking of doing one for his birthday, I have many photos from car shows. If I do, I will be asking you for advice. |
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BarryKeller
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| 05/14/2008 12:21 PM |
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Wow Suzanne! This is just wonderful. You master those reflections. Just superb.
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LovetoPastel
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| 05/14/2008 1:44 PM |
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| Thank You Barry! I've been afraid of the reflections in my Rose and pearls and this gave me the push I needed to get in my studio and git er done! |
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