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Published: 2007-04-04 03:52:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 3571; Favourites: 63; Downloads: 92
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Rembrant soft pastels and faber castel pastel pencils on coloured paper. A2Julia is the middle sister of Emma [link] and Laura. [link]
I'm very tired right now. Will see if I can get a better photo later. I guess its not too bad...grainy
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I smell bath water when I see this one. More specifically, I smell a brand locally called, "Algemarin", which smells something like seaweed at low tide by the ocean.
It is a testament to your skill that my first impression is of a smell, instead of a sight.
Lovely work, my friend. I have nothing to suggest for changes - only my impressions as they wash over me.
Best,
Russell
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this looking great !
you have rendered her hair superb, like the manner in which you handled all the delicate strands, also her skin tones are spot on.
I always like images with a neutral background like this as it helps centralize the figure as the main subject and focal point.
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Thank you for saying so
I agree completly with the netural background statement. Its for similar reasons I don't do clothed figures, I really think as simple as possible is the way to go.
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I never commented, just faved
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thanks 
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thats cause you havn't seen the original.. I need to get over it, its jsut frustrating not to be able to get a good copy of my things when I work so hard on them
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Itβs a beautiful drawing with wonderful details. I like the composition with the space on the right that she is looking at.
The blue in the background enhances her skin tone by its contrast and brings out her blue eye color at the same time.
Very nice!
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thank you for your feedback, I very rarely use blue, and I chose to do it for the exact reasons you mentioned, so I'm glad it worked to someone else's eye as well
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Great job on the detailed hair and the skin tone. You've really got the colors down. They always look perfect. I like the way she's holding her hair up and looking to the side. Really great work.
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thanks. I am gradually refining my use of colour, I think the whole working on coloured ground is really effective if doen right, still experimenting there, but yeah tis working so far
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You're welcome.
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well thanks for saying so, my skind tone deffinatly something I've worked on heaps, I'm amazed I can get it out of pastels when you can't quite mix colours the way you do with oils
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No problem. I guess you just have to know how to use the pastels softly and carefully. If you work with them enough you learn.
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yes I'm starting to get there...actauly going to reserch them some time
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thank you, took forever though
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awesome drawing, i like the level of detail and the color and texture skin.
My gallery [link] !!!
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thanks for saying so, the hair was a fucking pain....
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Haha, well, the pain paid off.
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You're soooo welcome honey! 
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Not so bad...I'm making plans to get much much better at pastels, working bigger, using layers, that sort of thing. Getting bogged down on my current oil, I'm jsut not inspired with it..allthough its nearly done and looks good so I guess I'm just being stupid there...
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Oh I completely understand about wondering if something is done, or should I do this, or that to it. We stand there looking helpless because we are never sure if we will truly love it and/or whether people will take kindly to it ect. I understand how that is honey.... but with your talent, I doubt why you would doubt yourself so much....
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Gorgeously detailed and colored. I love the form and pose. Great anatomy and fine lighting. Wonderful style and technique.
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WOW, great render of the hair and texture of the skin. Your pieces are getting better and better every time I see them.
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thank you. I'm really going to try and push myself up a level in the next few months, still have some gains to make, but I guess that goes on your whole life...
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Beautiful! I'm always afraid to spray fixitive on my pastel works, because kills the colors. Do you avoid doing this also or do you have certain technique?
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I avoid spraying them because it kills the colours. If you want to work building up layers with your dark tones under you can spray them, but you if you use fixative at the end it all goes pear shaped. Just have to try and get them behind glasse asap.
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Yeah, I'm just asking various pateslists this question. I thought maybe someone knows a way to preserve their pastel works without having that problem. All the answers have been the same. I don't know if you have heard this but Degas had a recipe for fixing his work without killing the colors, but it's been lost.
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arg!
No I hadn't heard that...I kill for the recipe I tell you now..Same as the van Eyke medium for oil painting...also lost
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Beautiful! You do a wonderful job with those pastels....
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I'm starting to get more into the idea of them. Thinking about actaully like, reserching how they are used and stuff, and working on a bigger scale, see if I can really push it a bit further.
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Nice work mate, I think your flesh tones are better in this one a little bit warmer perhaps.
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thanks for the feedback, I thought that as well, however I'm pretty sure its mostly due to a cooler colour for the background, as my general skin tone is mostly unchanged
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this looks almost effortless in style
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