Gentle Giant
26cm x 39cm, Pan Pastel on Pastelmat
Original SOLD
Copyright Laura Hardie 2013
Copyright Laura Hardie 2013
Please do not use without permission
Have
been thinking a lot recently on whether to keep my blog going or not - I’m terrible at
keeping it updated for a start and wonder if, because of that, I actually still
have people looking in and seeing what I’m up to on here. Do I still have
readers out there? I’m sure there are ways I can check stats to give me such
information but, being the technophobe that I am, wouldn’t know where to start
on that. Note to self, I really must
try and embrace technology more instead of shying away from it. Been told on
numerous occasions, for one example of many, that I should be tweeting on Twitter but
always assume it will be complicated and frustrating to get my head around so
avoid it. Anyway I digress.
I blame
Facebook. Totally. Since having my page on there I’ve spent my time keeping
that updated with new work and information and neglected my blog. I’ve also
sadly neglected reading other blogs as I follow so many artists now on Facebook.
It definitely appears to be the way most artists communicate with the world
outside their studio. Staying on the subject of Facebook, if you haven’t yet
seen my page and would like to follow my work there, I have a link to it on the
sidebar to the right. Would be nice to see you there.
But then there is a big part of me that doesn’t want to scrap my blog. I’ve had it for seven years now
and it’s nice to have that record of all my goings on both at the drawing board
and away from it. It’s a bit like a diary in that way. So for that reason alone
I’m going to keep it going – for now anyway.
Was just
reading over my last post and see that I mentioned working in Pan Pastels and
that I had started a drawing with them. Well, it’s finished and I can now share
it with you, see above. I’m really pleased with the result considering it’s my
first. I’m familiar with pastels and have used them on numerous occasions but
never the Pan Pastels and it was the huge, fat sponge tool applicators that
took a lot of getting used to for me. I say ‘huge’ and ‘fat’ because compared
to the fine points of my pencils that’s exactly what they were and felt like. I
thought there was no way I was going to get any sort of detail using them but
the more I worked and played with them the more I learned and liked (also had
the help of a couple of pastel pencils for the finer details but that’s allowed:))
Was really enjoying myself at the end and I’m looking forward to using them a
lot more in my work.
I've also finished a couple of Clydesdale Horses using coloured pencil and will share those in my next post.
