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My Experience with UART Pastel Paper, Part 2

Graciela Bombalova Saturday May 3rd, 2025 Leave a comment

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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My Experience with UART Pastel Paper, part 1

Graciela Bombalova Saturday May 3rd, 2025 Leave a comment

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.

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Pastel portrait process of a child

Graciela Bombalova Friday December 25th, 2020 3 Comments

This is my last portrait for 2020. Just seeing the pictures I knew it would make a beautiful portrait. This painting was made as a Christmas gift commissioned by the father of the child for his wife… He sent me several good pictures of the boy with a very sincere and natural expression, beautiful light, […]

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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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