My Impressions in Pastels

Van Gogh Inspired

Cheena — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:41:57 +0000

I like the painterly Van Gogh strokes…no doubt he liked them so much, it is simply therapeutic..the short swirly strokes add so much of life into the artwork. This one in particular had to have the swirls. I am tempted to add some more.

This is what I created last night.

It does look very bright and perhaps a bit ‘artificial’ but I literally played holi with my easel and enjoyed it quite a lot too!

Added a few more strokes and I guess I am through with this one!

Spring Time!!

Cheena — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:14:30 +0000

Spring is here! My garden is in full bloom! My easel is looking quite pretty too I am glad to be scumbling again!! I owe it to the flowers!!

Thanks to my hub, who clicked a whole lot of pictures of the flowers in our garden, that I could not resist it. Just had to paint. Am I glad?? Oh, yes, I am, very glad that I have again started to paint. And yes, I have stated this several times, haven’t I…each time I paint after a long break, it seems like I have ‘re-started’ and will stick to it…and each time without fail I go slide into my laziness…

Hope this time I will create some more, I really really want to.

Thanks for stopping by!

WIP – Bougainvillea

Cheena — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:56:22 +0000

After a long long break from my easel and pastels, I ‘think’ I am getting back to it. Feels good! Scumbling is so much fun…

My keyboard, well, I am working alongside my painting…is all nice and pink as well

Tulip – WIP

Cheena — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:57:21 +0000

I paint in spurts and bounds, one teeny weeny painting, and then a long break.

Just need to shake off the laziness and get down to some serious pastelling. I kind of promise myself each time I paint, that this time it is going to stay…I mean the painter in me Well, here’s another attempt…will be posting the finished version on Wetcanvas very soon…here is the WIP for now…

On the way to Palampur – WIP

Cheena — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:27:38 +0000

Just came back from a lovely little vacation in the hills. On the way to Palampur, clicked several hundred pictures…couldn’t resist as everything seemed so divine and beautiful. But sometimes what your mind can capture the camera fails to. This is a work in progress, this time I painted a small one (as suggested by my hub) so that I would atleast get on to some serious painting stuff, have taken quite a long break from my pastels…high time I started, rather re-started!!

Hopefully this time, I will be painting in full swing

Here’s the next version, still some areas are unfinished…hopefully I will complete this today and start another one…

Orange!

Cheena — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:47:31 +0000

Pure pigment, pure bliss…Pastels are simply irresistible! So finally after almost a zillion days I am back at my easel, pastelling! It is therapeutic, I must say.

Clicked a picture of these in a garden, don’t know what these are called. Let me know if someone figures it out!

My son is now 2 years and 2 months old, and well, here is something from him as well. He is doing quite a bit of doodling now. Look at the neat and crisp scribbles…looks like he has a fascination for fruits n veggies. Though he likes to draw planes and birdies too. Infact, one day he surprised me by drawing “me” That was kind of cute though. Complete with my shoes…