Saturday, December 3, 2011

Interesting

This little 6x6 pastel is done on a hard board using gesso and marble dust as a surface texture.  I painted an under painting using pure pigments in complimentary colors.  The scene is from our trip to Chicago Art Institute a few years ago.  I loved the body language.

2 comments:

Kelley Carey MacDonald said...

Wow, Dori, your technique is so elaborate! This is such a great little painting - I love the body language, too!

Anonymous said...

Dori, so much in this lil piece, and with pastels nonetheless. Well done my friend....loving the strokes and colors...and the bleed throughs too!