Saturday 7 August 2010

Summer Workshop Exercise

Acrylic Ground and Soft Pastels - Irises

This is a recent discovery through a demonstration given to the Tatsfield Art Group this year. I was away and could not teach that night, so the group had a guest instead. I am embarrassed to admit that I cannot remember his name, but the group wanted to have a go when I got back.

Well, what an enjoyable, expressive and colourful combination. One applies a special paste called Acrylic Ground for pastels to normal acrylics and then you apply it to mountboard. This dries with a tooth which enables the soft pastels to adhere to the board. Because you can use any colour combination on the board, one does not need to labour over the pastels at all. The acrylic layer peeps through to transform what could be a predictable pastel illustration.

3 comments:

  1. Hi Adie,

    I have just featured your beautiful drawing in a blog I write to help high school art students: amiria [blog]

    I have credited the image to you (of course) and included a link back to your site.

    Please let me know if you are not happy for me to you use your work as an example, and I will remove it immediately.

    Thank you! :)

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    1. Hi Amiria

      I am very happy for you to link your art students to my blog. I am extremely flattered and thrilled that I can be of help. I have not been very consistent. Something which I plan to rectify. I am living part time in France where I intend to paint a lot more. However, there are plenty of my own class exercises which I will be posting on the site in due course.

      Kindest regards and thank you for your support.

      Adie

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    2. Hi Amiria

      I am very happy for you to link your art students to my blog. I am extremely flattered and thrilled that I can be of help. I have not been very consistent. Something which I plan to rectify. I am living part time in France where I intend to paint a lot more. However, there are plenty of my own class exercises which I will be posting on the site in due course.

      Kindest regards and thank you for your support.

      Adie

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