Artist's Drawing & Inspiration - USA (2019-09)

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Pastels

Mary River Ro s

This pastellist doesn’t generally work from photographs, because the camera

sees things so differently ... and she tends to lose the mood, spontaneity and

enjoyment of the work when she views a camera’s images of a landscape she

has been painting.

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MATERIALS

• Red CansonMi-Teintespaper.


• Steel outdooreasel (Italianmade)
  
  
  • heavy enoughto be stable
    and easy to carry and set up.
  
  
  
  


• Tripodtable: An adaptedcheap
  plastic tray which can be screwed
  onto a cameratripod.


• Pastels.


• Fixativespray.


• Drinkingwater, hat, sunscreen,a small
  tarpaulinfor shade; and (sometimes)
  a paintingdog for company.

THEPASTELS

I keep my ‘outdoor’set in a cheap plastic

fisherman’sbox – the kind with compartments

used to keep hooks and lures. I pack the

pastels in with cotton wool or rice, so the

rougherthe journey,the cleanerthey get. I use

all kinds from the softest Unison,Schmincke,

Sennelier,Art Spectrum,Winsor& Newton,

to the relativelyhard Rembrandt,Conte sticks

and pastel pencils,and now theAmericanPan

Pastels.The more coloursthe better. I never

have enough.In this paintingI used a wide

range of colours,hardnessesand makes of

pastels – but the indispensableones were:Art

SpectrumFlindersRed Violet and Flinders

Blue Violet; SchminckeDark Green and

Grey Green; Red, Green, Purple and Black

Pan Pastels;Rembrandt,W&N and Unison

Grey-Pinks,Grey Mauves,Reds and Oranges;

Pan Pastel and UnisonWhite, Light Greens,

Warm Yellows,Orangesand Warm Blues.

FINALSTEP