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Pluot and Bosc pear
both are Polychromos on LeCarte sanded paper
both are for sale on Paula Pertile's Pencil.

My inner Illustrator and inner Fine Artist are fighting a duel to the death at the moment. Not sure who will win.
Actually, its a day to day thing, and today the Fine Artist won.

I really do love working on the sanded paper. I have to be careful how I handle it though. The Pluot has a 'boo boo' on the left side where I was holding the paper while drawing, and smudged off the sanded surface. So that piece has been trimmed from its original 8 x 10 down to 7 x 9 to take off that bit.
With the Bosc pear, I taped the drawing down on the back with drafting tape to a piece of cardboard and worked on it without holding it, and that worked better.

I'm doing these at my drawing table, and working on a semi-slanted surface. My other option would be to work at an easel, and clip the paper to a board. Might try that next time. It would also keep my cat from lounging directly on the board and wrapping his tail around the subject matter while I'm trying to draw.

I bought some nice olives to draw today. They'll also make a nice tapenade.
OK, now I'm hungry.

In the spirit of "everything old is new again", I've pulled some of my pastel drawings from a while back and have made them into ACEO sized prints.



There for a while I was really into pastels, and actually thought that's all I'd ever do for the rest of my life. Then too much inhaled pastel dust plus worn down fingerprints from smudging my fingers into the sanded pastel paper made me take a break.
Another thing is that they're hard to store safely without smearing them (unless you have museum quality storing capabilities, or at least really good flat files and are extremely careful. I can't answer "yes" to either of those questions, so I don't do them anymore.

I did a lot of shoes. A lot.
(These are Kenneth Coles.)



And my teapots and white china (which were fun to do using a lot of color).



A lot of these pieces were BIG, like on a whole sheet of illustration board. Some are smaller, and done on sanded pastel paper or heavily textured handmade papers. Some were done on Canson.
Mostly all of them were done with Rembrandt pastels. And some charcoal.

I'm putting them all in my paulapaula etsy shop, and will keep adding pieces as I get them printed out and ready to go. Its fun to look at something other than Christmas cards, don't you think?