Hydrangea

Drawing of Hydrangea

Graphite on Paper

12" x 9"

Kruger No. 14

Kruger No. 14

Pastel on Paper

19" x 12.5"

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I had worked on this painting for about two weeks. I had decided to take a "mixed media" approach for this painting. The first layer of paint was dissovled by brushing with denatured alcohol. Different marks were also made by rubbing with fingers. A layer of dry pastel was applied. This was followed by spraying with water and letting the water drip down, carrying some pastel pigment with it. I then fixed the surface with fixative spray. The process was repeated over and over again to achieve a varied texture of wet and dry that layered one on top of another.

Untitled

Untitled

Acrylic on Canvas

22" x 30"

This is a break from pastels. Actually, I have been working on this painting in the past few months. It has a lot of different textures with the use of collage and different mediums.

Kruger No. 13

Kruger No. 13, Pastel on Paper, 10"x10"
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This painting is also done on a piece of white Kitty Wallis paper . I have decided to change things up and do a more abstract version of the piece. It was a lot of fun playing with composition, colours and textures. I am quite happy with this piece.

Kruger No. 12

Kruger No. 12, Pastel on Paper, 10"x10"

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Today's painting is done on a piece of white Kitty Wallis paper which has a heavily sanded texture. It is more difficult to paint on a white background compared to black. The rough texture also made the pastels sit on top and some rubbing was required to distribute the pigment more evenly. I have brushed a first layer of paint off with a soft acrylic paint brush to fill in the paper surface. The image was painted again on top and some of the pigment was again brushed away to give a more varied surface (e.g. stripes of light in the sky).

Kruger No. 11

Kruger No. 11, Pastel on Paper, 10"x10"

This painting was done also on a brilliant red-orange Sennelier LaCarte paper. I've used the cool colour scheme. I have left as much of the background to show through in contrast with the colour of the painting.

Pastel No. 10

Kruger No. 10, Pastel on Paper, 10"x10"

This painting was done on a brilliant red-orange Sennelier LaCarte paper. I've used the cool colour scheme. I've consciously left as much of the background to show through in contrast with the colour of the painting.