http://www.cheenakaul.com My Impressions in Pastels Fri, 11 Mar 2011 08:02:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 :) http://www.cheenakaul.com/102 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 ... http://www.cheenakaul.com/tulip-wip 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 ... http://www.cheenakaul.com/on-the-way-to-palampur-wip 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 ... http://www.cheenakaul.com/orange Lately I have been thinking of experimenting a little...been wanting to paint a simple/abstract like painting. This one is a small approx 10"x10" of a bouganvillea, done on neutral gray canson paper. Before I started off, I was quite unsure about what it would it look like. Well, I can ... http://www.cheenakaul.com/flower-power Another one from a picture on Wetcanvas Reference Library. I really enjoyed working on the background haze... http://www.cheenakaul.com/blossom