Thursday, October 11, 2012

Pastels after matte medium

The photo made it look much better than it really is. I actually think I prefer this to the original, but it's not like that. For some reason camera found some darks and lights and made it interesting. 
;This is scanned. Even the scanner brought more light to it than it actually has.
This was the original.
It's all good. I can easily add some patches of color and make it to my liking, but it's just a quick play-journal, so I'll take it as lesson #1 and probably leave as is. So - for your information - if you don't want your colors to change and be dark and dull - don't use acrylic mediums over pastels. They were not meant to work well together. Enough about the cover, it's time to open the journal and finish what I started.

6 comments:

  1. The painting may not have turned out like you wanted....but her eyes are still expressive and captivating. You teased us about the 23 paintings. Hope you have plans to reveal them soon!

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  2. The painting may not have turned out like you wanted....but her eyes are still expressive and captivating. You teased us about the 23 paintings. Hope you have plans to reveal them soon!

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  3. oh, the eyes have drawn me into your piece and won't let go....

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  4. it speaks to me...and the best is you have learned something..isn´t that a gift?!

    excited to see the inner pages when you show them!

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  5. wonderful to see your piece in your no words allowed journal
    i am thinking the lights and darks that you like are giving this piece more drama
    it is a lovely piece

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