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Participating in the first Yiqing Lian 2021 Soft pastel exhibition, in China!

Graciela Bombalova Wednesday December 29th, 2021 1 Comment

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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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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Pastel painting exhibition; “Touching the color, The renewal of Pastel” (1)

Graciela Bombalova Wednesday November 20th, 2019

I have been waiting for an exhibition like this since.…always! It was a great opportunity to be able to see all these amazing pastel paintings beautifully arranged, all together in one single place. The “Casa Garriga Nogues”, in Barcelona. A selection of dozens of different works; Original pieces from artists of the last 2 centuries, […]

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Pastel Portrait process of a very charismatic girl

Graciela Bombalova Sunday November 3rd, 2019 5 Comments

This is a Pastel portrait I ´m very happy with! The girl is really beautiful in a graceful way and because of that, it was quite difficult and delicate to capture her well… I´ve enjoyed making her portrait and fortunately, I have several pictures taken during the process. I´ve worked this painting on Canson  Mi […]

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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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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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Pastel portrait step by step

Graciela Bombalova Tuesday January 8th, 2019 3 Comments

I made this Pastel portrait, step by step, a few months ago. It is the third portrait commission I get from this family. This time my model was a beautiful young girl dressed in ‘faralaes’, something very characteristic of southern Spain. I only had at my disposition low-quality photos, taken from afar and with a […]

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10 ways to improve your photos for portrait painting of children

Graciela Bombalova Saturday June 3rd, 2017

How to take good pictures for Painting portrait and how to develop your skills to make better pictures and get better painting portraits? This post could perfectly be the second part of “How to make good photos for painting portrait? Reflexions on how to turn your photo into a painting. (part 1)“.  10 Ways to Take […]

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How to make good photos for painting portrait? Reflexions on how to turn your photo into a painting. (part 1)

Graciela Bombalova Monday May 8th, 2017

From photo to painting. That is the question. (Reflexions about to turn your photo into a painting.) Starting this post I had several questions in my mind; How to paint a portrait form a photo? All the pictures work for painting a portrait? Or a better one to start from the beginning… How to choose […]

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