Road Sketch #29

"Road Sketch #29"  (pastel, 4x6 inches) click here to bid

The classic mid-summer lonely road. Were does it go? You decide!

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Road Sketch #28

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Another variation of shady road with distant sunshine. I debated whether to include the yellow lines on the road, but decided they worked with the composition.

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Road Sketch #27

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I liked the light in this scene; moving out from under a cloud, into the sunlight.
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the photo reference with the bare pastel underpainting, on Wallis board.

the un-blended pastel under-colors ready for the alcohol wash.

the underpainting washed in with denatured alcohol

I start with the sky and work my way down the scene, by sections..

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Road Sketch #26

"Road Sketch #26" (pastel, 4x6 inches)  click here to bid

Back on the road and back into the road sketches, at least for a short while or until I get excited about something else...

I do feel compelled to admit that these are not necessarily scenes from my current trip, but are inspired by several shots that I filtered out of my photo files before I left. I guess I'm just not a plein air kind of road-trip artist, especially for a scene at the side of a road, while trying to drive...

Below are some progress shots. I used mounted Wallis paper for this one, with a pastel underpainting washed in with denatured alcohol, as I learned from Terri Ford's workshop this spring. I enjoyed the little road landscape I did in her workshop that I underpainted with lots of reds and pinks, so I went back to that idea with this one.

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Coco

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Coco is the last of my pre-road-trip summer paintings. I snuck this one in after dinner the night before I left, so no progress shots. Too busy...

I'm taking my pastels along, so will try to shoot and post whatever I can accomplish while I'm gone! (Hmmm...I feel some more "Road Sketches" coming on...)

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Zoe

"Zoe"  (pastel, 7x5 inches)  click here to bid

Zoe (and tomorrow's sheep) were also in the same herd as Gypsy. Lots of lovely variety from that photo shoot!

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