Finished this 8x10 soft pastel painting today

[LiberalLoner]

Trying to learn how to do winter scenes. Still have a lot of learning to do.

https://pin.it/3JasIou

[oregonjen]

1. Beautiful! I like your style.

My husband paints as well and he’s constantly trying to improve and learn new techniques.

[LiberalLoner]

2. Thank you so much! ❤️

[jkirch]

3. Thank you.

It really feels like moving down the road on a cold winter night. The sharp, bright lines suggest movement to me. Nice work.

[LiberalLoner]

11. ❤️🌹

[Ohiogal]

4. I love your use of color!

[LiberalLoner]

12. Thank you! ❤️

[Generic Other]

5. Beautiful piece...

I love the texture of pastels. Messy, vivid. I like how your work draws us in. Blue shades wintery and cold compliment the faraway winter sun.

[LiberalLoner]

10. Thank you! ❤️

[AllaN01Bear]

6. lovely, what medium if i may ask?

[LiberalLoner]

8. Thank you! Soft pastel! ❤️

[wendyb-NC]

7. Spectacular painting, thanks for sharing it.

The location, a less traveled, road through the country or rural wooded area. A deep heavy snow weighing heavily on the trees their branches and shrubs. There is no one around, the snow compressed by some tire tracks refreezing as the suns last light fades, highlighting the trees and the landscape with brilliant hues of blue, violet and pink.

[LiberalLoner]

9. Thank you!!! ❤️🌹

[judesedit]

13. Very cool. Nice work, Liberal

[LiberalLoner]

14. Thank you! ❤️

[judesedit]

19. You're very welcome and very talented. My dad was an artist

He worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer as an illustrator for years. Also, taught at the Philadelphia Academy of Art. I don't even know if it's still there. But when he went freelance, he worked in charcoal, ink, pastels, painted portraits in oil and used some other interesting mediums. I guess, because of that, I love to linger, just taking in and appreciating art of all kinds. Thank you for sharing yours.

[LiberalLoner]

24. Wow that's so cool! What an amazing education you've had, with your father having had success

In his career! Do you like to do art too?

[bif]

15. Absolutely beautiful.

I'd love to try soft pastels but they're so darn expensive!

[LiberalLoner]

20. Thank you! Marla Baggetta has some good suggestions for new artists just starting in soft pastel,

She recommends getting a set of nupastels, a set of Rembrandt half sticks, and the Paris half stick set from Sennelier. If you add up the various costs plus buying pastel paper, works out to be maybe about five hundred. Not cheap, but some wouldn’t find it too hard to save up that much. If wages weren’t so insanely low in this nation most everyone could afford to paint with soft pastels. We need a fifteen dollar minimum wage, basic guaranteed income, something along those lines.

If I had to start from scratch and could only afford a hundred or so I would buy a 90 half stick set of Rembrandt’s, you can make some good paintings just with those.

There are far cheaper soft pastels available but they aren’t artist grade.

[bif]

25. $500?!?!

I think I'll stick with acrylic paint!

[LiberalLoner]

28. I know, I know. It's a big investment up front.

[Karadeniz]

16. It's lovely, very active!

[LiberalLoner]

21. Thank you!

[BadGimp]

17. Great painting... but

I hate Pinterest...

[LiberalLoner]

22. Thank you! I'm sorry.

[lunatica]

18. That's a very dynamic painting

I find it exciting. What appeals to me is that it pulls you in making you want to go down that very long road that disappears into the distance, somewhere where the warm sun is far ahead.

Your use of a one pointed perspective where everything radiates away from the center of the canvas makes it very specific that it’s about where the road may lead. It also grabs your attention because it creates visual tension. You feel the depth, as if you must travel the road to get someplace far away. It pulls you in.

Your colors are brilliant and richly saturated and they light up the scene with your balanced use of the warm golden yellow and pink colors in the sky and reflected in the snow, and the cool greens of the pines and the light blues and purples highlighting the branches and snow. The effect is that the painting sparkles as if every bit of snow is reflecting the light. Your road looks like a dirt road with deep tire grooves and spots that look like slushy and frozen pools and tire tracks. You know it will be a bumpy ride. The painting is compelling and it seems to be the beginning of a story, a trek, a journey to some other place.

You’re doing great with your paintings. They are successful and thought provoking. It’s warm and cold and inviting and a little scary because of the uncertainty of the road conditions and because it looks like it might be close to sunset. Close to getting dark. I love it!

[LiberalLoner]

23. Wow thank you so so so much!!!! Your posts mean so much to me and I am so grateful! ❤️❤️❤️

[lunatica]

26. You're an artist through and through.

Everything I say is true.

[LiberalLoner]

27. 😍🌹❤️👩🏼‍🎨❤️