ALL SEASONS – BACK TO NORMALCY

Hello All Seasons Bloggers,

Your posts of last week were fun and entertaining,
as well as some with a delightful educative slant.
Enjoyed them all with all my heart
Thank you for taking time in the busy December month!

 

The link this week is open from
Sunday December 13 to Wednesday December 16.
until midnight, Texas Time

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NEED TO KNOW

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2. ONE image for the photo link list, per week, per url
3. Any reference toward advertisement (links of
   other blogs, images) will be removed
4. Don’t forget to visit some of the others!

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THIS WEEK

I finally made some headway last week. I saw a blog (see bottom) and was mesmerized by the landscape I saw. I immediately knew, this had to be a pastel.
It took me 40 minutes though to finally get all the paints,
paper, and cover the couch and table to start,
after I was given permission by the blogger.
Now I am without a studio, I paint in the living room!
Don’t have to feel sorry for me. This is what I chose for!

 

My preference for paper to make a pastel resembles
a colored sanding paper with a rough tooth,
so I can get as many layers on there as necessary.
Sorry I cannot live out my creativity 
with the flimsy Mi-Teint  paper.

I use soft pastel (it looks like chalk), not oil pastel.
Do not want a shine on there. Pastel is as trustworthy
and enduring as the oil medium.
Several well known masters of the past (Rembrandt,
Degas, etc.) made use of it.
Also, in contrast to smoothly blended colors,
I like the structure of the several layers of colors
to be visible.

Here I made a rough outline with pencil, and start with
dominant colors: Deep ultramarine, Turquoise blue,
and light pinkish brown.

 

 

The background mountains and the pier are the first
two things  being put in place. Later I move
the 2nd pillar a little more to the right,
to create the feeling of roominess.

Since one cannot mix with water or oil when working
with soft pastel, the shades of a color are made
with another color (not always the lighter version
of the same color – no rules here, just experience!).

In the beginning with this medium I began
with a hard Nu pastel, moved to a mid-soft
Rembrandt, and saved very soft Sellenier for last.
Not anymore.
Hardly use pastel pencils anymore either
(one’s fingers become more agile,
the more one does this).

Then at the end, I use a spray fixative
especially for pastel, pencil, and charcoal.

 

Matching up the reflection, after I finished the “real”
mountains range in the back.
Also continue with more of the water in the foreground.
Maybe you have already seen that I move
from the right to the left, because that is how
I usually look at images. Yes I know, my sleeve gets
a color too, but that’s for later worry.

 

Pastel,  13 1/2  x  19 1/2 inch, ©St Germain,
View of Hallstatte’s lake

 

Most of the adjustments took place between
the third and the final stage.The mountains are
now lighter, the sky more blue,and the foreground
of the water lighter.

This may seem just a few colors, but used
32 pastel sticks (all of a different color).
For a landscape I change little things here and there,
so it is not a copy, but a representation
of my impression of Hall Statte.
Can’t wait to see this beautiful view myself some time!

Traude at Rostrose on blogspot was so kind
to give permission to use her image of this place
at Hallstatte.If you like to see more of the beauty
at Hall Statte, visit her here:)

http://rostrose.blogspot.com/2020/11/freie-sicht-auf-hallstatt-salzkammergut.html

 

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