Thayer's Gulls

Thayer's Gulls

September 2007

Last night I decided to experiment a little using paint thinner and hard pastels. First thing was to rub on some pastel in large blocks of color for the background and then I brushed paint thinner over top. This washed the pastel into the paper which give it a water color look. Instead of waiting to let the paint thinner and pastel mixture dry completely, I decide to start in with a outline drawing of the gulls. Then I started to apply the middle ground colors to the wet paper which really felt like painting with an oil stick. The drawing strokes went on with a painterly look and feel. Think I enjoyed the process more than the completed study of the gulls.