Sky study 19

It was fun using some "old-fashioned" pastel paper (Ingres) for a change of pace. There's definitely, when using this sort of paper, a sweet spot where you have just enough pastel but not so much as to kill the sparkle.

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My darling Fang.

But don't let his angelic sleeping demeanor fool you--he's a hellion when awake.

Jaipur roofs.

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Reflection

Am feeling better today, but not quite up to an actual oil painting, no matter how small. So I thought to ease back into the studio, I'd just mess around with some abstraction in pastels. I'm always so amazed by how much time has passed. I mess around with a couple of abstracts, and assume maybe an hour has gone by, and it's more like 2 or 3 hours. This is true for me in art in general, but perhaps even more so with abstracts...perhaps the mind really does work differently when doing things with "pure" abstraction than with forms of realism.  Just a hypothesis.

Reflection is the title because it reminded me of a watery reflection, and also because for whatever reason(s), I've been doing a lot of it lately.

(As always, the photo doesn't do it justice...the reddish color is more red in real life, less orange, and the painting has more vibrancy.)

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