This is my most recent soft pastel piece and was completed at the end of February. I'm working on a title for it, so it's still just "Girl on the Beach", which is way too generic. At 19 x 24 inches, it is the largest work I've done to date. Please let me know what you think!
I have finished several new graphite pieces over the long, long winter and will be posting them periodically to my blog in the near future. There are a few pieces that were commissions, but the majority of them are available for purchase. If certain pieces get a favorable response I may have prints made that are also available at a substantially reduced price than the original.
Just to let those who are interested know, I had been working with oil painting in 2012. That spring I had a severe reaction to them and had to stop using them. I tried acrylics and had a reaction with them also. I was so bummer about having to give them up that I quit making anything except the occasional commission piece. I wanted to add color to my work in the worst way, so this last fall I decided to dive into pastels and resumed creating graphite drawings again. I need to practice and refine my technique, but I can see a future using them to create large portrait, figurative and landscape pieces. So, now it's off to work on a new idea!
