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.
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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.
I recently received a very special letter from China! I was contacted to participate in the First Yiqing Lian 2021 Soft pastel Exhibition, in China, something that made me very excited! The event was organized by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City, and the “Association of Artists and Pastel […]
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It’s been a long time since I posted on my blog for the last time… I had a busy summer, working on my orders and cooperating for the development of the first soft pastel handmade brand, in Spain. The Mamut pastels. This makes me proud and happy because the pastels are really special and already […]
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This is one of my last pastel portraits… I am so happy with it that I thought it would be great to share it here in my blog. I think it has a very fresh spring look, as the girl´s expression, which I love.. I just recently knew, as a curious detail, that the dress […]
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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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I recently published a new video for my youtube instructional channel and I´m so happy! 🙂 I did not expect this immediate warm reaction, from so many good people out there… and their sincere welcome back after two years missing! I definitely will film some new pastel portraits in-process in the following months and, If I have […]
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I made this portrait a few weeks ago. It was a request from a very special and charming woman, who is in love with her little granddaughter. The photos were “homemade” with a sidelight coming from the window. Sometimes it happens! We capture something special with the lens of our camera and this is what […]
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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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I have been asked so many times about this matter! Making several portraits of brothers and sisters with different ages that will be placed on the same wall, or room…How to prepare the process? Which pictures to chose? At what ages? These questions are recurrent and even more important when you decide to work with […]
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