It is beautiful, j-t. And the subject matter is really lovely, and looks like a special shared moment between mother and daughter. How old is her daughter now?
Her daughter's in university. I don't know how old she is and I don't know if she'd care about the picture yet. I'm probably going to give the original to shashigai and find out from him whether it would be good to make her a print.
It's Rembrandt chalk pastel on dusky red textured paper. Rembrandt's the second-best brand and I had a small set that I had to get for advanced figure drawing classes in university, but then Shashigai went and found a set of like 48 on eBay for cheap because they were pretty old. He's really good at things like that.
I think there's a lot of things wrong with it. One because I didn't lay the pastel on thickly enough in some places. Two because I didn't use workable fixative for layers along the way, just final fixative at the end, so it took some of the vibrancy out of the colors. Three because there are seams showing through from the backboard. Four, the proportions are off in parts of Angie's face.
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Date: 2010-08-31 10:36 am (UTC)Verdigris would like to know what medium it was?
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Date: 2010-08-31 05:36 pm (UTC)Her daughter's in university. I don't know how old she is and I don't know if she'd care about the picture yet. I'm probably going to give the original to
It's Rembrandt chalk pastel on dusky red textured paper. Rembrandt's the second-best brand and I had a small set that I had to get for advanced figure drawing classes in university, but then Shashigai went and found a set of like 48 on eBay for cheap because they were pretty old. He's really good at things like that.
I think there's a lot of things wrong with it. One because I didn't lay the pastel on thickly enough in some places. Two because I didn't use workable fixative for layers along the way, just final fixative at the end, so it took some of the vibrancy out of the colors. Three because there are seams showing through from the backboard. Four, the proportions are off in parts of Angie's face.