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New soft pastel portrait

Graciela Bombalova Friday May 14th, 2021

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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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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A new pastel portrait. The process step by step

Graciela Bombalova Sunday September 20th, 2020 7 Comments

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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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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Painting Exhibition; Velázquez y el Siglo de Oro español

Graciela Bombalova Tuesday March 5th, 2019

A very interesting exhibition of  Master painter Diego de Velázquez in Barcelona, and several other contemporary artists of his time, the so-called “Siglo de Oro”, like Tiziano, Zurbarán, Murillo. Van Dyck and others… Most of these paintings are usually in Madrid, in the Museo del Prado, so it was an occasion that I should not […]

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Pastel Portrait of Mrs. Karen R. Lawrence

Graciela Bombalova Tuesday June 27th, 2017 1 Comment

Pastel Portrait of Mrs. Karen R. Lawrence Institutional Pastel portrait commission of current President of Sarah Lawrence College. A few months ago I was contacted by Sarah Lawrence College, a private liberal arts college in the United States. It is located in Southern Westchester County, NY. They proposed me a very interesting project. The creation […]

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