After many years working in Pastel outside for street paintings, I have decided to bring it into the study and work with the medium smaller scale. It has been a rather interesting process since most of the times I do not create images in pastel that are smaller than 10ft x 16ft. So doing studies with pastel at 18"x24" is quite a change of pace. But, I am enjoying it with an amazing product I found called "
Unison Gator Premium Pastel Board" made by Richeson Art. It is a great surface that comes either on heavy duty watercolor paper or applied to a acid free gator board. It seriously is like painting on sandpaper and is fantastic. The image I did here is a hour and a half study of "Boreas" by Waterhouse and loved the way the pastel took to the board and the effect it had. It really held a lot of pastel and still is very workable. I would highly recommend it if you are into pastels
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Here's the finished sketch. About 2.5 hours worth
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