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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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Pastel portrait of a Little girl, my art in the making

Graciela Bombalova Friday February 8th, 2019 11 Comments

There are not exact answers on how to paint a face, or how to draw a realistic portrait. We all have different stiles, favorite art materials, techniques and no one has “the formula”, but it is always interesting to see how other painters work. Working on my posts, I have realized there are some patterns […]

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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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Visit to Schmincke Factory in Erkrath, Cologne, Germany

Graciela Bombalova Friday April 6th, 2018 4 Comments

Sometimes dreams come true! We all dream of things we would like to do or achieve. And for me, those dreams are in colors…! Visiting the factory of Schmincke, one of my favorite Soft Pastel brands and one which I have been working with almost every day for many, many years now, has always been a great […]

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Useful tools for drawing and painting. The “red pen” I use.

Graciela Bombalova Friday April 21st, 2017 3 Comments

The “Red pen” I use…That big mystery! There are a lot of useful tools for drawing and painting, a lot of different and interesting drawing materials on the market and this post is about one of them. This is a post about the “Red pen” I use in my youtube Pastel portrait videos and in my […]

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