Paradise Lost And Found
Our senses have evolved to filter out and ignore the majority of information around us. Evolution is a very efficient thing; it doesn’t tend to waste energy developing anything that’s not essential to an organism.
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Our senses have evolved to filter out and ignore the majority of information around us. Evolution is a very efficient thing; it doesn’t tend to waste energy developing anything that’s not essential to an organism.
Since many of my paintings incorporate wildlife, I must frequently rely on quickly taken photos to capture the moment.
The first difficulty in depicting a rainbow in pastel is not the rainbow itself but rather the treatment of the pastel dust in the underlying layers so that the beauty of the rainbow’s colours sit resplendent on top.
Painting portraits can be intimidating if you are unsure of where to begin. For me, it is that initial layer of pastel that makes the subject start to take shape.
Are you in the ‘too many colours is not enough’ camp? or the ‘less is more’ camp when it comes to having colours to choose from?
Developed in collaboration with Two Rivers Hand Made Paper Company in Somerset, together we have created a pastel paper totally unique to Unison Colour.
When you’re not a painter of trees and lakes, but you ARE a painter, you need to find what subject or subjects make you want
Associate Artists Robert Dutton and Andy Moodie explain how supporting one another as artists helps each to progress using Unison Colour soft pastels.
Associate Artists Robert Dutton and Andy Moodie explain how supporting one another as artists helps each to progress using Unison Colour soft pastels.
I get a lot of comments like “wow, looks like a photo”, but with a closer look it’s not so close to the reference after all. My goal is not to recreate the photo in all the details.
Robert Dutton will be running a series of live webinars with ‘The Artist’ Magazine and Painters Online.
I recently challenged myself to create a saltmarsh beach painting using a more vibrant pallet. I had noticed that many pastel painters used an underpainting to create a finished piece that glowed with colour. So, I set off to achieve the same result.
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