{"id":1091,"date":"2020-04-12T16:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2020-04-12T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:44:18","slug":"pastels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/index.php\/2020\/04\/12\/pastels\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while, but now with everyone under a stay at home order, I&#8217;ve got plenty of time to play with art.   Here are two quick studies I did to try to see how they work.  I&#8217;m learning.  The frog had good colors but I realized I&#8217;d made it much too small for the kind of details I wanted to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0095-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1093\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/img_0095\/\" class=\"wp-image-1093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0095-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0095-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0095-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0095-416x312.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0095.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Green Cat Eye<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0097-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1097\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0097-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/?attachment_id=1097\" class=\"wp-image-1097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0097-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0097-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0097-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0097-1-416x312.jpg 416w, https:\/\/bluesuncraft.talkat.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/IMG_0097-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-item__caption\">Red Eye Tree Frog<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">Pastel Studies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I called these &#8220;pastels&#8221; but they are specifically Stabilo CarbOthello pastel pencils.  I have an ancient set of pastels that I never liked because they make a huge mess and were &#8216;scratchy&#8217;, I&#8217;m not sure about the scratchy part, but having pulled them out again now I think my main problem is that I only had 9 colors and it wasn&#8217;t enough to do anything.  And also I would need to work BIG and that kind of size intimidates me.  Buying paper that large is expensive &#8211; but I&#8217;m adult now with my own budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while, but now with everyone under a stay at home order, I&#8217;ve got plenty of time to play with art. Here are two quick studies I did to try to see how they work. I&#8217;m learning. 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