Pastels

[smallhobbit]

Yesterday I had another Dare to Dabble session, this time the official monthly one.  The theme was pastels and we began by learning to mix the pastels, by applying two colours beside each other on the paper and then mixing them together with a finger:



Once we had the idea we were able to start on a picture.  The woman running it provided a form of paper, like tracing paper, so we could reproduce a picture of, say, a robin and then colour it ourselves.  Some went with the robin, others chose flowers and I said I wanted to do my own picture, and experiment with using the pastels.  Although she said this was fine, I got the sense that this wasn't actually the intention, because although she helped the others she left me entirely to my own devices.  This is unusual in a dabble class, because generally we're encouraged to do our own thing, and whoever's leading will still provide helpful suggestions.

Anyway, I worked on a seascape, and when I took it home SM said it reminded him of one of the places we had visited when we were in Wales, which was really good, as I'd had it at the back of my mind when I was creating it.

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Nice! Glad you got to experiment with a new media and after all it is called 'dare to dabble.'

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. Exactly - trying something out one's own way is much more likely to encourage future participation.

[badly_knitted]

The bottom one looks like waves crashing on the shore =)

[smallhobbit]

That's excellent, because that's exactly what it's supposed to be :)

[badly_knitted]

Yay! I thought it must be, but I didn't want to assume ;)

[apachefirecat]

Awesome! Go, you!!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.

[rusty_armour]

You obtained some beautiful results experimenting with pastels! I really like what you did with the waves.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. I'm delighted you like the waves.

[debriswoman]

Lovely work…I haven’t used pastels much, but really like the effects.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you - I'd like to do more - I do enjoy working with them.