A Couple of New Pastels

Time for a couple of updates

Here are a couple of new pastels

This one is titled "Space Port" which shows a couple of vintage rockets with some

images from an animated favorite of mine "Futurama"

I've reworked this one a couple of times and still aren't sure if I like it.

This one is literally "just off the easel", it shows a shelf in my studio where my still life items live.

Thinking of calling this one "The Usual Suspects" or "The Cast"

What do you think?

Nearing the final stages, will put in highlights and further "aging" tomorrow.

This has been a lot of fun, and I have an idea for one more piece with these

guys, but it will have to wait for a bit.

I will post the final version late tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

Progressing quite nicely, I think. At this point they look like they

are floating above the surface. Kind of a nice visual.

After this piece is finished, I think I will revisit my early fantasy

work as I return to the "Realm"

As you can tell, I work from upper left to lower right. This time,

I am being very careful not to scratch the ampersand panel as I am

leaving the panel unpainted to create the background.

Starting the color work for "Balance & Symmetry"

It doesn't show up very well in this photo, but the drawing

has been transferred to the Ampersand Pastelbord that I work on.

This support is by far my favorite.

This is a detail of the first clown being painted. Layering in the first

layer of pastel, a Prussian blue. Several more layers will be worked on

top of this, just getting started.