After the Chipmunk I decided I liked my pastels again. I have a love/hate relationship with them and have been in the hate phase recently.So I started this lion that I photographed at the South Lakes Wildlife Park last summer.
I watched him for quite a while and took lots of photographs, but I like the way he's looking at the viewer with his head slightly tilted in this shot.
It is about 20 x 16 on blue haze Colourfix paper.
I'm laying a base coat with soft pastels then working with pastel pencils for fine hairs. I will finish with really soft pastels to add little highlights.
this ia looking great already, I love pastels but find them hard to work with, cant wait to see this finished.
ReplyDeleteIt looks very promising. Can't wait to see the end product.
ReplyDeletelooking GOOD - with just the eyes in it already has that lion 'look'
ReplyDeletehooo wow Gayle, he's really something else! That's like a huge step up all of a sudden for you. Everything you've done lately just seems like you've just taken a leap onto the next step somehow. Look at that mane...it's magnificent! I really can't wait to see the rest of this guy.
ReplyDeleteThank you all, I hope I don't mess him up!
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