A small pastel.
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About Jala
- Jala Pfaff
- Boulder, CO, United States
- I'm a painter (and writer and Spanish instructor) living in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. I studied classical art in an ARC (Art Renewal Center) school, Colorado Academy of Art, full-time for two years, in order to benefit from the rigorous atelier-style training. I am currently dedicated to exploring abstract and semi-abstract art, working in oil and also in soft pastel. I firmly believe that all human beings are creative, whether or not they have yet found an outlet for the innate creative urge, and that the creative arts are the highest form of human expression. Email me at: jala[at]jalapfaff.com ...Please also visit my website: jalapfaff.com ...ALL CONTENT IS COPYRIGHT
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9 comments:
This is different than many of your others, but I like it. Gotta love that red and green!
Jala. I'm so impressed by your abstracts - you'd get a chuckle with my attempts (trying to follow your instructions!).
What drama and tension in this one: but yet the pastel is so soft! Great contrast.
mmmmm, so peaceful, I like these colors and so softly applied... I love that you can just do it all!
And ps - one could make loquat pie, jam and wine! One could if one was so inclined! :)
Wow! color field vibration! Would love to see this one in real life. Am loving the neutralized, higher value versions of the green - citron on the background, and the red at the bottom. very cool, Jala! Let me rephrase: very hot, Jala!
Hi Jala. This is SO beautiful! The cool green and mauve colors support the red, which to me is so engulfing. And the warmer green in the background really makes it glow. I was surprised to see the tiny size - it seems much more like a huge canvas! Really nice!
You certainly are mult-faceted! This one reminds me of Rothko. Very cool.
There is something about the edges, especially the edges of the large red shape, that give it a 3-dimensional quality of weight and substance. I love the texture of your pastels. Very nice.
Leslie - Thanks. You're right, it's quite different than my usual. Sometimes I hesitate to post these experiments that are so different...but then I make myself do it anyway.
Kelley - Thanks. I'd love to see one of your abstracts one day!
Loriann - Thanks. You get it!
Laurel - Loquat wine. Sounds interesting. Have you ever tried it? I CAN'T do it all. But I try.
Cathyann - Thanks!
Sally - I know, isn't it so tiny? I wish I HAD done this on a big canvas!
Janelle - Thanks. It reminds ME of Rothko too.
D - Thank you. This one has actually quite a different texture than my usual pastels, because this was an experiment on UArt. It was the finest grade of UArt, so virtually no tooth. It was also an experiment with solvent. I first put a bunch of green down and dissolved it with solvent, then once that was dry, put the other three colors on top of it. And I think they have an unusual (for me) texture because there is almost no tooth on that paper.
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