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New Pastel portrait painting process on my YouTube channel, working with MAMUT handmade soft pastels

Graciela Bombalova Saturday March 6th, 2021 5 Comments

This is the last Soft Pastel portrait video I made for my Youtube Instructional channel. I have decided to edit this video in a different way this time. It goes slower than the others and it is also larger… Almost 25 minutes! The double than my other pastel portrait videos. This is because several of […]

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Portrait of a friend. Experimenting with Pan Pastel

Graciela Bombalova Sunday July 19th, 2020

It was a great experience for me to work on this portrait! The model is a good friend of my family and he is always happy to spend some time “collaborating for the cause”. He is an architect, an artistic soul with a free mind, and a great personality too. I wanted to make a […]

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Odilon Redon and his Pastel technique

Graciela Bombalova Tuesday February 25th, 2020

After my last visit to the Pastel exhibition in Barcelona, I felt very pensive about Redón’s works… I knew that the pastels of this surrealist painter had a power of color, very different from the others. But after seeing his works live, I was really surprised by the texture, the structure and this velvet feeling […]

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Pastel painting exhibition; “Touching the color, The renewal of Pastel” (2)

Graciela Bombalova Saturday December 7th, 2019

The 18thCentury as a Mirror Although pastel is a technique saw a formidable rise in popularity during the 18thcentury, to the pointed situating itself as an equal in comparison to other techniques, it never managed to fully conquer its legitimacy versus oil painting. Its intrinsic fragility and the fact that it is used as a […]

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Pastel painting exhibition; “Touching the color, The renewal of Pastel” (1)

Graciela Bombalova Wednesday November 20th, 2019

I have been waiting for an exhibition like this since.…always! It was a great opportunity to be able to see all these amazing pastel paintings beautifully arranged, all together in one single place. The “Casa Garriga Nogues”, in Barcelona. A selection of dozens of different works; Original pieces from artists of the last 2 centuries, […]

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Pastel Portrait process of a very charismatic girl

Graciela Bombalova Sunday November 3rd, 2019 5 Comments

This is a Pastel portrait I ´m very happy with! The girl is really beautiful in a graceful way and because of that, it was quite difficult and delicate to capture her well… I´ve enjoyed making her portrait and fortunately, I have several pictures taken during the process. I´ve worked this painting on Canson  Mi […]

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A still life Pastel painting, enjoying the colors.

Graciela Bombalova Wednesday September 18th, 2019 1 Comment

It was long ago when I did my last still life Pastel painting. Normally I do Pastel portraits that capture all my attention but I had this particular desire and joy to paint a simple still life set up for the first time in years… I almost forgot how liberating and relaxing the still life […]

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In the “Ochre heart” of Provence, Roussillon, part 2

Graciela Bombalova Sunday July 21st, 2019 2 Comments

After visiting the mines, we took the car and not far away, only two kilometers, we found the old Mathieu factory. An old ocher factory, which produced about 1,000 tons of material a year, until 1963. It was then abandoned for many years until Barbara and Mathieu Barrois discovered the place, felt in love and decide […]

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Recycling soft Pastels

Graciela Bombalova Friday January 25th, 2019 8 Comments

Like most of the pastelists out there I also keep lots of tiny pieces of soft Pastel. What can we do with them? Can we recycle them? I keep them selected by color ranges. Many small pieces into a lot of small boxes and pots that accumulate over time, waiting for their moment… Most of […]

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A day full of colours…

Graciela Bombalova Wednesday January 16th, 2019 1 Comment

This was one of those days when everything shines and all has more color. With my family, we were lucky to be able to enjoy this day and spend it all along on the south coast of France, near the Parc Naturel Régional de la Narbonnaise en Méditerranée. No hurries. Without anything important to do… The […]

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