Spent quite a few hours on this little lady the last couple of days.
Faber Castell Pitt pastel pencils on pastelmat paper.
Tag: Art
Self Portrait in Shades
Polychromos and Pablo pencils on Bristol Vellum paper
Tsunami
I have been drawing for around 4 or 5 weeks now, and enjoy it so much. My soul gets completely absorbed. I can concentrate for hours, when normally I can only concentrate for an hour at the most, when I’m watching TV or a film.
Here’s a poem:
When I put my pastels
to my paper
I get lost
in a vortex of fervour
Colours cascade from my
feisty fingers
Chroma hints
Pigmentation lingers
Cut like a diamond
dripping indulgence
on a distinguished rapper
I am rapt
Dazzling, decadent, daring
My mind dissolves
into a technicolour maelstrom
Splash of red, hint of blue
Unbridled passion sways from
these unostentatious hands
Difficult to believe
the ebb and flow from
my whirlwind mind
of shifting sands
I am a palette of tsunami
A riot of imagination
My gleeful tools
worship my paper
Making love
to the beguiling texture
of this creative emotion
A passionate mixture
Cherishing inception
with religious devotion
Trading my soul
for an effigy
Igniting the cognition
of self-expressive perception
Every stroke of colour
that blesses the canvas
is a spiritual atonement
And the completion
is an act of contrition
And I lose myself
©2020 Sarah Drury
Frida Kahlo in Pastel
My attempt at drawing Frida Kahlo in CarbOthello pastel pencil. I know it isn’t perfect, but I’ve only just started working with pastels (and only 5 weeks since I started drawing).
Portrait in Purple
Portrait of my son, drawn with Caran D’Ache Pablo pencils on Bristol Vellum paper. I found it was harder to get the detail on the vellum compared to the Bristol Smooth.
Blue Iris in pastels
At the request of a friend who just had a grandaughter called Iris!
Pastel pencils on pastel paper.
Calla Lily in Pastels
I drew this at the request of my cousin. White calla lily in Conte pastel pencils on Pastelmat.
