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Watercolors and other watermediaTeresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-15243933121227739472014-12-22T19:00:00.000+01:002014-12-22T19:00:49.816+01:00Naughty or Nice?Merry Christmas everyone!!<br />
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I hope you've been nice because Leaves for Chloe is out right on time for Christmas, oh yeah.<br />
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But if you've been naughty... well you better start making amends right now and hope for the best, Santa's a jolly nice guy after all *hohoho*<br />
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Ah my fingers are itching to draw more Chloe...Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-71031899353245669652014-09-08T11:05:00.000+02:002014-09-08T11:05:59.342+02:00Leaves for Chloe e-book cover<div class="" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.3839988708496px;">She is <a href="http://lostinwondert.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/all-in-leaves-e-book-cover.html">Anna's</a> best friend, she's also the main character of </span><a href="http://patelliott.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #940f04; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.3839988708496px; text-decoration: none;">Pat Elliott</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.3839988708496px;">'s novel Leaves for Chloe, and once again I've had the opportunity to bring her to life for the e-book cover.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.3839988708496px;">Portraying Chloe has been such a different experience compared to Anna. By the time I started working on Chloe I had read the first novel, so this chick wasn't a brief but someone I already knew.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.3839988708496px;">It's been a super fun project, drawing outfits, laughing with Pat, turning dogs into lambs and into dogs again... I would have liked to park a trike somewhere in there, but she has high heeled boots in the country so I regret nothing!</span><br />
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Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-68618462783558718452013-11-16T01:38:00.002+01:002013-11-16T13:07:11.728+01:00All In The Leaves e-book cover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She's the main character of <a href="http://patelliott.blogspot.com/">Pat Elliott</a>'s novel All In The Leaves, and I've had the opportunity to design the e-book cover for her.<br />
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It's been a long way baby, and as exciting as it is to see how all the work is wrapping up and finally out in the open I have to admit I'm gonna miss all the laughs we've had during the process, even through the pert-boob incident (ooops! Shhhh....).<br />
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I'm happy to say that it's finally out for sale on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/all-in-the-leaves/id751048942?mt=11&uo=4"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Apple's iTunes</span></a> and <span style="color: #cc0000;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/All-Leaves-The-Series-ebook/dp/B00GP2S57C/">Amazon</a></span>, and it'll soon appear on<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.796875px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony, Waterstones.</span></span><br />
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It's been full of ups and downs, but I think I'm going to let the downs wash away and just cherish the sunny days, beautiful cucumbers, photo shooting outdoors, action movies, and new geckos visiting the terrace during the evenings.<br />
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Don't know about you but I didn't get to use my watercolors during most of the summer. Got to do sketches and studies though, and got ready to start a new series of paintings, and now finally my brushes are getting wet again, yeah!<br />
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And I'm taking the opportunity to go back to basics and use some pigments I haven't used for years. I can't even remember why they got replaced with something different in the palette, but hey, I'm having a blast rediscovering, experimenting, and finding how to integrate them in my current painting processes.Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-89199919115245066692013-04-08T00:22:00.000+02:002013-04-08T00:22:17.689+02:00Traditional vs. Digital - Take 2<br />
Not long ago I was musing about digital and traditional art, about them being <a href="http://lostinwondert.blogspot.com.es/2013/02/digital-vs-traditional.html">two sides of the same coin</a>, two tools serving the same goal.<br />
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See this portrait? Last summer I was lucky enough to work for a man who wanted to take an old and damaged photo of his mother when she was a baby, reprint it and use it as a gift.<br />
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Anyone would have asked for a clean up in Photoshop or similar.<br />
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Instead, this man chose to commission the revamp of the photo as a watercolour painting. How amazing is that?!<br />
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Each time I fall in the digital/traditional debate I end up thinking the same, the tools are not important, <b>just make meaningful art</b>.<br />
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Ok, not exactly, there's a whole essay that I have not read. Honestly I didn't know the full name of Mr. Parkinson nor how he got to such conclusion or why, but I always pictured it like a fellow sitting on the grass, elbows on his knees, chin on his hands, chewing on a straw while thinking "<i>nah, I don't think that's gonna get finished today</i>".<br />
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Yes, my mind likes it simple. And now it's wondering how on earth do you stop work from expanding?! How do you optimize the work to finish the task on time?!<br />
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I've been doing portraiture warm-ups in 15 minutes, daily. After switching from monochrome to a limited palette of 4 somehow the task does not just fill the time frame anymore, it overflows it entirely.<br />
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Is there a secret to speed up the painting process? Inquiring minds need to know! These have improved after I forgot about my usual layering way of painting and just attacked full on with darks first, in and out, but I still can't get half of a portrait finished in 15 minutes.<br />
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If they don't lack the nose they lack one eye, if they have a mouth they don't have a head, some of them manage to have hair and a mouth and a nose but not eyes.<br />
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I refuse to put anything better than a "hmmmm...." by their side until they look at least half finished so, any suggestions to speed up the painting process? I promise even if they sound weird I'm willing to try, which are your secrets when you want to paint fast and accurately and finish the task in a short period of time? Please share them with me.Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-82071504212601199422013-02-20T11:10:00.000+01:002013-02-20T11:10:01.263+01:00Perturbadito<br />
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It feels good to paint something without other purpose than relaxing and enjoy the flow of paint on the paper.<br />
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Since this little fellow has been guarding my conte pencils for quite some time now, I decided he deserved an homage.<br />
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I got rid of his stray eyes. Not sure why. They give him this disturbed look that oddly enough, grows on you after a while. Might do a second version just to include them!<br />
Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-55686779129235992232013-02-13T12:18:00.004+01:002013-02-13T12:18:51.676+01:00Back to the Drawing TableThis is the last figure drawing I did a couple of weeks ago. I loved focusing on the neck and face for once.<div>
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Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-4808486937773746262013-02-07T22:13:00.000+01:002013-02-19T15:05:23.869+01:00Digital vs. Traditional?<br />
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ill for over a week guys. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Have you
ever been ill but feeling well enough to get to the painting table just to discover the
little nuisances of it all? It can be so frustrating!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">That pencil
stroke running in the wrong direction thanks to a coughing fit. Or the paint
from your brush splattered all over the paper because of a sudden sneeze. How
about the brush falling from your hand and rolling over your paper? Believe me,
NOT FUN.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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point I decided to redirect all my creative efforts towards digital, which I
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been a bunch of new icons, some textures to tweak future images (couldn’t let
those splatters go to waste, now could I?) and a couple of little pics for the
web.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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little ID card, it’s so much fun grabbing scanned images, some stock, a bunch of fonts and unused sketches,
throw them all together, stir while it boils and see what comes out of it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I guess I
just need to fangirl for a little bit over the chance of having one art medium
that’s not messy when you need it, one that allows as much flexibility as any
other traditional medium, one that lets you UNDO the unwanted stray stroke that
you make when you cough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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point of this post is simply to acknowledge that digital and traditional are
two sides of the same coin, that it doesn’t need to be one OR the other, but
both complementing each other. Whatever works, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-69748312686635581862013-01-30T10:10:00.000+01:002013-01-30T14:30:08.280+01:00Every Time I Paint a Portrait I Lose a Friend<br />
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Sargent who said that? Well why nobody asked Mr. Sargent what happens when it’s
a self portrait? I’ve found out, it’s horrible to give yourself the silent
treatment, but you do!</div>
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interesting how easy it is making a self portrait just for yourself and how
difficult it is to do it to show it to others, the reason is quite simple,
you just want to look GOOD – yes I’m hearing Darren Hayes singing Ego inside my
head, shut up Darren! – After some failed attempts it turns out that only I can
look like me... and that’s a good thing! Ha! go figure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is and I think this one is truly me, not just physically, and that’s the goal,
rocking my American Retro T-shirt, comfy socks, my beloved Escoda in hand and a
big smile plastered on my face, and hopefully sending those vibes to you, C’mon
you know what I’m talking about. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And yes, it
doesn’t hurt that the “engaging” and “dynamic” angle hides any fat that might
or might not be down there ha-ha! after all I want to start talking to myself
again as soon as possible!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Have you
painted a selfportrait? I want to see them! Point me in the right direction and
please tell me you’ve gone through the same narcissistic mini crisis.</span></div>
Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-12496992482119157532013-01-23T12:15:00.000+01:002013-01-23T12:15:01.113+01:00Always Practice<br />
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I’ve been
doing drawing exercises daily for a while, but all this time I've been
wondering how could I incorporate the same kind of quick exercise in
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In late September I decided that trying portraits in the warmup would be a good complement to the figure drawings, so I added a 15 minute portrait in watercolor to the daily routine.</div>
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Being
completely honest I got mess after mess, they truly sucked, got discouraged and
stopped for a while, then got back to it this time taking one step at a time, first
in monochrome, trying to get right proportions, then trying to get some
resemblance to the model, then trying to speed up the process (yep, that clock is freaking me out again, it happens if you're a turtle when painting)</div>
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messes 90% of the time, tons of “aaaargh!” and “ewwww!” and “</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span><span lang="EN-US">” written next to them right after the 15 mins
are over, those will never see the light of day, but from time to time I manage
to get something that looks like an actual perfectly fine person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I incorporate one more change it feels like the dreaded step back but I guess
it’s needed to get to the couple of steps forward, so I think I’ll keep at it
since I want to see that percentage change to at least 90% of successes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i><b>Lesson
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and chew chew chew.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-28800000032669525402013-01-16T22:05:00.000+01:002013-01-16T22:06:25.191+01:00Last Minute Panic<br />
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familiar with Bill Watterson’s Calvin&Hobbes? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Do you
remember that strip where Hobbes asks Calvin whether he already has come up
with an idea for something he should be doing, and Calvin’s retort is that you
have to be in the right mood? When Hobbes asks what mood is that Calvin goes “last
minute panic”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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been in last minute panic mode for over a week. Painting like a possessed
woman. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Disregarding
hours of work in 15 minutes by hitting full blast what once were mild dark
areas with a brush loaded with thick dark paint, mercilessly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Removing masking
tape (which BTW managed to take with it some of my hair - yes, the gum in the
hair nightmare come true way after grade school) just to realize I wanted more
darks hence laying down some more masking tape.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-16890887783692519172012-11-26T21:32:00.000+01:002012-11-26T21:32:09.189+01:00Embrace Fear<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Here’s a
fact, Fear is a strong source of motivation, sometimes the strongest. Here’s
another fact, that motivation can get you to better places, the problem is that
more often than not it seems to motivate you to turn and run in the opposite
direction, or just freeze sporting the dumbest face you’re capable of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Do you want
to know another secret? Fear probably just
wants to help you to reach that better place but the wacko has not the best
sense of direction so you need add your two cents too, it’s just trying to give
you some advice, you can take it, ignore it, or bend it, letting Fear lead
probably won’t end pretty well but once you turn it into a team work chances
are that you weren’t condemned to doom after all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">-...o_O…well it’s not that bad…</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">-…. yeah ….. a pity there’s no time, it’s going
in the mail tomorrow morning, and it’s such a tiny area that is going to be difficult
to lift it completely, and probably will look weirder after that, there’s no
time to redo the whole thing if I ruin it, it really needs to be in the mail
tomorrow blah blah blah…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Rest
assured I was the one getting the blows. It’s unsettling to get that kind of
straight feedback -not to mention nailed critique- right the night before I
want to mail the thing. And all the blabber? That’s a lot of stupid excuses
pouring out of my mouth as fast as Fear whispers them in my ear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I’m always
telling fellow painter friends to just go for a change they are pondering, that
it won’t be ruined, that once you’ve done something you can do it again if bad
comes to worse, and every time I’ve firmly believed every bit of it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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something that you know is not working, and the chances are either leaving it
as is (just to avoid ruining something that you know isn’t good enough), or
changing it and maybe fixing it... it’s a no brainer, isn’t it? You go for it
and make it better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now insert Fear and my own work: bye-bye no-brainer, hello brain
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when being friends with Fear might be an advantage. Maybe - just maybe – I’ll give
it a knowing look and say “hey why not trying to lift it? Imagine if I screw
up, that’s gonna be the kind of panic attack that you’re going to love fueling,
look forward to it while I rework this, will you?” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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end it took more time arguing through that conversation and defending the case
in my brain than it took to just get to the task and repaint that face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-39521103997374937192012-09-20T16:59:00.001+02:002012-09-20T16:59:23.399+02:00Sketching sketching sketchingToday warm up session has been devoted to self portraits, whaaaaat?!<br />
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Want a self portrait for the web so I'm just playing with some ideas lately, this is one of them.<br />
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Ok, so it doesn't seem to be going anywhere as it is right now BUT it's been fun, and a needed milestone, maybe it evolves into something that worth further development or maybe not, but either way it needed to be out and done to jump to the next one.<br />
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That's the brilliancy of quick sketches, you can try tons and discard tons and let the milestones guide you in the right way.<br />
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I used to get engrossed for weeks into drawings that might or might not work. These warm ups have burnt something in my brain, brainstorming works, rough and quick works.<br />
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I'm finally allowing myself to embrace the "just do it" "doesn't need to be pretty" motto and encourage you all to do it too.<br />
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Go draw something!Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-65030378382807660022012-09-17T22:59:00.001+02:002012-09-17T22:59:51.925+02:00Figure drawing - More daily sketches<br />
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Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-38812091011919402212012-04-12T18:22:00.001+02:002012-04-13T11:26:18.944+02:00Figure drawing - daily sketchesLast sunday’s been a month since I began practicing gesture figure drawing daily, while I can’t afford going to live figure drawing sessions I’m relying on the next best thing, <a href="http://www.lovecastle.org/draw/">The Drawing Script</a> and the <a href="http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php">Figure & Gesture Drawing Tool</a>. To celebrate I’m sharing some of the results from this month.<br />
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I’ve always looked in awe at artists posting their figure drawings, such confident lines, accurate, dynamic, perfect! I want to draw like that too, confident, accurate, bold strokes, want to draw faster and get a better comprehension of how the body works, render it in as few lines as possible.<br />
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Have you heard of “fail, fail again, fail better”? “practice makes perfect”? Go figure, it actually works!<br />
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I want it. I need it. N·O·W. Where's that stupid "donate" button when you need it? <br />
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Loved to do it. I don't do this every year, neither I send christmas cards, honestly I seldom text people for christmas, when I do I want it to be special and personal and hopefully make that person's day a little bit brighter. <br />
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Have you ever made new year resolutions? or a new year planning? or a wish list? I have, it's private, just for me, with musts, goals and wild wishes.<br />
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Last month -thinking about the next year's one and revisiting my last year one- have made me realize how important the wishes section on that list is.<br />
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That's why this year I've gone and done little paintings again, proper christmas cards this time, filled with stars ready to grant all kind of wishes.<br />
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So make a wish, make many, from the heart, believe that you can make them happen and go for it!<br />
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May 2012 be your best year yet.<br />
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<i>-They are <b>surprisingly soft </b>for a pastel that is called "hard" but it's indeed harder than the usual pastels, added to their <b>thin and squared shape they allow a great control</b>, I like that :)<br />
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-It is true that there's only an amount of pastel the paper will take but I find it <b>easier to control the amount of pigment you use</b>, they are <b>very versatile</b>, you can go from superwide strokes to thin lines made with a corner without effort, from soft touch to intense color, in just one stroke, this makes really easy to not overwork it and even let the grain of the paper show through for as long as you want to.<br />
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- They <b>don't feel like chalk</b> at all! <br />
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-They <b>blend so easily </b>and yet <b>it's easy too to cleanly cover a previous color with a new one </b>as if the other wasn't there, I guess that could not be so if the area were quite overworked already but I didn't get to that extent, in my mummy I found no trouble putting a clean soft pink over a couple of layers of deep gray and dark blue.<br />
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-<b>Dust</b>, this is the thing that you won't get rid of no matter how hard the pastel is, but that's the great thing about using them out of the house, you can just blow it away and let the wind do the rest :)</i><br />
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Now that I've made one test I want to try some more things with them, one is try them on a paper without grain (nupastels have beaten the panpastels without mercy this time but no grain maybe provide a more balanced battleground) but the most important one is trying different ways of lifting it so you won't get to overwork the paper unless you go too far, not knowing too much about working with pastels I want to try to lift them with some kind of brush, smudging with a cloth will get rid of some of the pigment but will mostly blend and smudge it into the paper texture (already tried that today), but maybe the bristles of a brush get more pastel off the paper, also I want to try using masking tape, the pigment should stick to it and be completely lifted right? so my bet right now is:<br />
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I can't wait to try this theory :). So...what else can I try? sugestions? have you done any experimenting with these? <br />
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Oh, and now that the mummy is done I'm looking at the pastel fixative spray bottle in disbelief, there's no way any fixative can really seal this, is there? nah!Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-55863893395070209772011-06-06T18:35:00.001+02:002011-06-06T18:36:02.135+02:00One done, two to go!And Under the Wave is finished, now onto the next one! <br />
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Links to the whole WIP: <a href="http://lostinwondert.blogspot.com/2011/05/new-wip.html">Step 1</a>, <a href="http://lostinwondert.blogspot.com/2011/05/under-wave-halfway-through.html">step 2</a>, <a href="http://lostinwondert.blogspot.com/2011/06/one-done-two-to-go.html">step 3</a>Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-45397472434803850252011-05-30T20:17:00.001+02:002011-05-30T21:56:33.550+02:00Under the wave: halfway through<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lkbFMWyAePU/TePfDClRHvI/AAAAAAAAAgs/5Rkhj8d0EOM/s1600/UTW02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="253" width="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lkbFMWyAePU/TePfDClRHvI/AAAAAAAAAgs/5Rkhj8d0EOM/s320/UTW02.jpg" /></a></div>It's taking shape, a couple more sessions and I think it'll be done.<br />
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I love staining pigments for this kind of painting where I need superdarks and vibrant colours at the same time, also they let you keep layering forever, the only con is that it's difficult to fade them to white in such a small painting since they are really intrusive pigments, that's why I've been working so slowly up till now until all the light areas were established, usually I prefer to fade those edges as I'm adding paint but this time I'll just have to blur them later. <br />
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Anyone wants a minicornetto? I'm taking one, as Ben Affleck said in that commercial <i>because I worth it</i> *yums!*Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6998063511496022591.post-33075492692636028202011-05-23T20:53:00.000+02:002011-05-23T20:53:34.194+02:00New WIPNo Hobbit update this week, sorry, but I have 3 little paintings in line and to be honest, it feels grrrrreat to hold a brush again, I'd missed those relaxing hours one on one with the paint and paper, feels like forever since last time I painted something! <br />
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Ok, it's an early stage and it's flowing quite easily so far so there isn't any secret or decission-making to share about this step. I'm using a very limited palette of 4 colors, the same used for the other painting, it has made me rethink about the importance or not of documenting your works, a.k.a. should I once and for all keep a decent record of my works instead of random swatches and photos of the used palette when I remember to do it?<br />
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Here's over the wave, the current twin gotta look at least as good so cross all your fingers for me ^_^.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0Q45OQYkWIw/TdFow7GUb4I/AAAAAAAAAgE/kcEcWJrh_Tw/s1600/S18R5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="285" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0Q45OQYkWIw/TdFow7GUb4I/AAAAAAAAAgE/kcEcWJrh_Tw/s320/S18R5.jpg" /></a></div>I know what's bothering me so much about this one, I killed the composition in every single possible way, overall wrong placings, the horizontal line, the verticals splitting in half the upper half, mirrored negative spaces, Bilbo right in the middle, how did I manage to do this? it can be mended though.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z-PjDFGyckk/TdFpmj8Y2bI/AAAAAAAAAgM/FIPxzko_XIk/s1600/S18R6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="210" width="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z-PjDFGyckk/TdFpmj8Y2bI/AAAAAAAAAgM/FIPxzko_XIk/s320/S18R6.jpg" /></a></div>And this one is gaining positions and might surpass the other composition in the end, not yet but it has potential. The big problem with this one is that there's too much dead space, and that barrel needs to be lifted, moved around and overlapped with other elements, then it might work... (and for crying out loud that hand must leave the center of the pic again, how does Bilbo manage to get in the middle all the time?)<br />
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Right now I think that overlapping is key, and unbalance, I need to break the quietness, it's time to go bold! don't you think?Teresa Palomar Loishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02923138524590902050noreply@blogger.com6