I just finished this painting of my Norwegian Forest cat.

This is Pastel on Canson Pastel Paper.

It was a real pleasure to paint it, and I am pretty happy with the results.

The eyes, the eyes that's what I love the most in my Misu!

But the most difficult thing to render, the mane!!!

Well, I put this original feline portrait up for sale on eBay.

I'm going to miss it when is gone.

This painting is an 8" x 10" on a 9 x 12 Pastel Paper

Please visit my ebay page:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/121095456040

Well, this is the finish work. I trimmed to fit 6x4 format. One thing that I think is a shame is how different the color are between real life and what you see in the computer.

SOLD

This painting is available on eBay the colors look very cool on eBay.

Just click this link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120998818277

Pastel on mat board "Black Grapes on Glass Bowl" step by step

The truth is that a little fixative goes a long ways in improves the ability of matboard to hold the layer of pastel. You have to be judicious because it will darken and destroy the lighter colors.

Pastel on mat board "Black Grapes on Glass Bowl" step by step

I decided to bring some of the color on the grapes to the background and ties the b\foreground to background.

Some say beer make you shmart, what do think?

This is also pastel on acid free mat board. Because of the light substrate the colors

are brighter and it was less work.

This is up for grabs on eBay. Just click on the following link:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/120989288552

Thank goodness for soft pastel!! the only thing is that  the mat board's surfaces gets filled easily. So a little fixative is in other.
You have to be sooo careful, fixative darkens and kills the more delicate hues. So you have to go over the lighter areas.

Pastel on black mat board, what a wonderful idea!
I wanted this pair to really sign and jump! I thought that the read would really stand out of the black substrate, but I guess is was not going to be as easy as I thought.