Comments on: Blurred Boundaries #5 – a pastel progression step-by-step

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:18:22 +0000

In reply to Christine Swann. Thanks Christine! Intuition is right. Wish I could have said I planned it but something told me to do it so, yeah, intuition!

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:17:00 +0000

In reply to Amy D Minson. Yayyyy!! Thanks Amy :-)

By: Gail

Gail — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:16:41 +0000

In reply to deb jedynak.

Hey Deb, thanks so much. It’s amazing how helpful those black and white photos are! Hmmmm…video eh. I will have to try it. I am so used to doing a one off demo. This would be different – the lighting would change as I worked on it at different times of day and different days. But then that would be part of it. Maybe I’ll give it a try on my next pastel in the series…..#7…..

By: Christine Swann

Christine Swann — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:08:17 +0000

the dark spot on the right hand balances out the entire left side. brilliant intuition. great job!

By: Amy D Minson

Amy D Minson — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:32:39 +0000

Love all of this series!

By: deb jedynak

deb jedynak — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:08:18 +0000

I liked that you consistently showed the black and white to gauge how you were coming along. I would have loved to see this in video format!

By: Gail

Gail — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 19:04:57 +0000

In reply to Laura.

So glad you enjoyed seeing the process Laura. And I love how you had a really good look at the final piece and the stage previous to it. 1) Yes, I lightened the shadow area over the hip bone (it showed up as such a dark spot in the bxw photo!) 2) what you noticed is actually a difference in the quality of the photos but well spotted! 3) yes, sort of – what I did do was bring the blue colour over that area thereby linking that area to the area on the left 4) yes – more and brighter red speckles!! There are a couple more things. I’ll wait to see if anyone else picks them out before I spill the beans here!
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By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 17:55:43 +0000

Gail, This is a fascinating exercise! Loved looking at it in the b/w and how the values could be seen or not seen! Great teacher and teaching, thanks. From what I could see in the last 2 frames: 1) you weakened the shadow from the breastbone to the hip, 2) weakened the shadow on the inner left leg, 3) darkened the background from the knee down (right side of pic), 4) added a stronger set of red speckles on the left side. Fun to see the progression, thanks!