Little Bird..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

                                                         This one is my first in this style.


Recently I had the pleasure of seeing one of my favorite artists Rita Kirkman work on how she gets her small animal paintings to glow as she does.


https://ritakirkman.com/




I have to say it's a tedious preparation for me, who mostly works very broadly and quickly.


Rita has a technique where she under paints her images on gator foam with pumice gel she tints with acrylic.


She usually works quite small too with all her animal renditions. This also goes against my usual painting format, as I like large formats.


I love the results she gets though, and I am sorry Rita, my poor examples don't do your demo justice.


This image is 8" x 10" unframed
I feel almost happy with it, but it's no Rita Kirkman.


Still, that's not what we should strive for, right? We (artists)  are an eclectic group of people, gathering information and ideas all the time and experimenting with possibilities for our own works.


Maybe I should call this one 'Homage to Rita'...


I have another one I also did in this technique, equally challenging, and I will post it now as well.


Enjoy..


Thanks for visiting..

                  Rae works and teaches in all mediums.. please contact her through her website at:

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Coupled..Pastel..Texas Artist..Rae Andrews

And now for something completely different!

I started this one a few weeks ago, and I am now finally wanting to get back into it.

It's a pastel on a sanded Richeson board.

Some of you might recall I had a mishap a few weeks ago when my studio leaked and rain splashed my pastel BACKWATER STICKS AND STONES.

The surprise of the lovely texture the rain left on my pastel surface made me want to repeat the whole process, this time deliberately.

I had this close focus photo of marine elements I took in Maui, and thought it was just the ticket to experiment with spontaneous texture.

I wanted the painting to be 'mottled' and 'worn looking, such as one sees when walking around a marina and looking at the ropes etc.

I hope you can see this effect okay, I am sort of liking it.

This image is 9" x 24" unframed

$250 plus S/H

Prints are also available through Fine Art America:

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/coupled-rae-andrews.html?newartwork=true

Rae conducts workshops and demonstrations of her techniques in ACRYLICS, PASTELS, OILS, and WATERCOLORS

For more information please contact her at:
rae4art@aol.com

Please visit my Web Site at:

www.raeandrewsgallery.fineartstudioonline.com

Or..

rae-andrews.pixels.com