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A Collection of seasonal art of all mediums and genres, and from artists of all ages and talents from well seasoned experts to beginners.
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I've been having so much fun with pastels lately, I thought I'd do another one. This project was something very new to me. I think I've only done a couple of landscape drawings. This is a lighthouse on a pier in Grand Haven, Michigan. The lighthouse is very familiar to me as I have been going to the Grand Haven beach pretty much all of my life. As a child I remember jumping off of the pier into Lake Michigan. This lighthouse is very much a symbol of West Michigan, where I am from and have lived all of my life. So I really wanted to do it justice.
I am really happy with how it turned out. I was a bit leary of drawing clouds when I first started it but I soon found out that there is really nothing to them. I think the sky turned out pretty good. The steel support beams were probably the most time consuming part of this because it is very difficult to draw a straight line with pastel pencils. So I would draw the beam with pastels and then go back and straighten the lines with mechanical graphite pencils. Hope you guys like it.  It's very nice to have this done finally. Now I can move onto the next project.12"x18" Canson Mi Tientes (gray) Faber Castel pastel pencils and Rembrandt stick pastels (all chalk) About 20 hours q-tips for blending |
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but... im not sure what else to say to this accept the lines turned out fantastically straight, and clouds, as you mentioned, really are easy to do... and often fun because there's not rules, and since there ever changing, you can essentially make them up :]
i just wish i could see more detail :/
or will i ifi download?
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but... im not sure what else to say to this accept the lines turned out fantastically straight, and clouds, as you mentioned, really are easy to do... and often fun because there's not rules, and since there ever changing, you can essentially make them up :]
i just wish i could see more detail :/
or will i ifi download?
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{Jesus, i surrender}
Make a reason for your art, not an excuse...
(\__/; ° .
('O`(LYD))==-
(")_("): '.`
LYD©... "takes care" of those annoying world conquering bunnies
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