Face of Symmetry
A4
Coloured pencils on Pastelmat
Here she is all finished. Fortunately I scanned it before applying fixative. Much of the colour did sink and darken with the fixative once I applied it, and even though I have touched it up quite a bit, the earlier scan was better - so lesson learnt - no fixative in future!!!
13 comments:
great work Karen! Sorry to hear about the fixative issue.
Thank you Mona - I really did the fixative just to see what would happen. I can't really sell this portrait as I used an image off the web so it really wasn't an issue when the pencil sank away :)
Beautiful, Karen! And you work so quickly! I take a week one one eyeball...gotta work on that! LOL!
You make me laugh Deb - you're one of the most prolific artists I know, but coloured pencils can be a bit slow sometime and this one actually took me much longer than I normally take with portraits :)
Great job Karen. Love it.
Beautiful Karen,and even with the colours darkening a bit, it is still fresh and vibrant.
Have enjoyed discovering your work Karen. It's really beautiful! Are you not worried by not using a fixative that time will take it's toll on your work?
Just fabulous Karen!
I was sure it was a still from Aeon Flux. I am always amazed at how she was able to move the way she did, dressed the way she was in that flick.
Bugger about the fixative.
Thank you heaps Dors :)
Thanks Vic - although this is the scan pre fixative, and the post scan definitely doesn't look quite as fresh.
Thank you Sheona - that's an interesting question. Pastelmat advertise that no fixative is necessary on their paper, but I assume they are talking about pastels in general. The main reason I used fixative was out of a concern for wax bloom. I usually work mostly with oil based pencils, where wax bloom isn't an issue, but I found the waxier pencils worked better on this surface. I might try watercolour pencils next time, where again wax bloom isn't an issue. If the artwork is framed behind glass, then there really shouldn't be a need for fixative.
I never saw her in Aeon Flux Cindy, but doesn't she have a body and face to die for!!! I always thought that would probably happen with the fixative anyway, but since I can't sell this artwork (not my image), I sprayed it just to see how much the colour sank away.
Just catching up after hols - this is stunning Karen. I love pastelmat but if using pastels I steam the work to fix it rather than aerosol fixative but that wouldn't work with coloured pencils.
Fixative use is always iffy on any paper I find - usually manages to alter some of the colours :-)
Ah Sue - welcome back. I missed you while you were on holidays. Being the Pastelmat master as you are, there were a couple of things I wanted to ask you. Isn't it a fabulous surface to work on! Hope you had a super holiday :)
Really stunning Karen, I love those eyes. Shes a beautiful lady but you really make her come to life.
Thank you Sam and welcome back!!! :)
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