This is a large format Handmade portrait painting of a boy on soft pastel, a custom pastel portrait from photo, size 23 × 43 inches
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My Experience with UART Pastel Paper, Part 2
For decades, I have worked with Canson Mi-Teintes pastel paper — a surface I know inside and out. This post is about my Experience with UART Pastel Paper, while working on a special family Pastel portrait featuring four full figures together, Mother with her sons. A big size Soft Pastel portrait painting of a family.
Continue readingMy Experience with UART Pastel Paper, part 1
Recently, I embarked on a very special project: a family pastel portrait featuring four full figures together — a mother with her sons.
The composition required a lot of space — much more than the large Canson paper I usually work with (29 × 43 inches). Since that wasn’t big enough, I decided to finally try the famous UART Pastel Paper in a roll.