Colored Pencil Portrait Complete

Colored Pencil Portrait Finished

     I am working on finishing a lot of my unfinished projects and this is one of them.  She is my niece and this was taken at the St. Louis zoo.  She was so photogenic!  She just loved to pose for the camera!  I will compete with this piece and then I will send it to my brother where it will have a permanent home.

This piece is mostly done with neutral colors.  French grays, cool and warm grays and a few other colors as well.  I used a couple brands of colored pencil.  I have the full line of both Prismacolor and Derwent Coloursoft.  I am looking at adding the Luminess full color set next month.

I want to a little bit about cameras.

     With cameras the way they are nowadays, it is so easy to take a change, take a lot of photos, and take your time going through them.  You should also try to get the settings right and check the focus.  Do a test shot to check your settings, unless you have a scene that is rapidly changing.  Doing a test shot and checking it can save you from disappointment when you get home.

In the world of cameras, it is important to understand that having a high megapixel doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a great picture.  The quality of the glass used in the lenses, and much more goes into a great camera.  I found that out the hard way.  I received a new camera as a gift.....higher megapixels, so I gave my old camera away to someone in my family!  Well it does not take as great of pictures, and she won’t give me my old one back.....even though I am doing free

paintings for them.  I am just trying to save a little and hopefully get the same camera again.

Lots of learned lessons there.

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You can check out my website here to look at my other art.  Human and animal portrait commissions accepted.  Wildlife art, floral, still life and scenic paintings for sale. 

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“Logging the miles on your brushes (pencils) is the only way to really advance as an artist.”

                                                                                                    ~ Deborah Boyet ~  
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Camellia inWhite

I love to paint in white but a bug eaten camellia is a tedious and puzzling piece of art work if you paint in a realist style as I do.  So it is a labor of love that continues.

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View my other work on my website.

Thanks for looking and don’t forget to stop and smell the roses....or whatever flower may come your way.

                                ~ Deborah Boyet ~

Brush Flush Revitalizes Brush Washer

Love my Brush Flush!  Have used it for years but put it to the test today.  Took my old Holbein brush washer that held turps and had been sitting in a corner for years.  Opened it and WOW I was blasted by a smell and greeted by scummy build up at least 1/2 inch of paint and reduced turpentine.  Yuck.        Cleaned out the gunk and then started washing it with Dawn. No luck, so then I took my Brush Flush and before long it were free of all that build up!!!

I have had this one bottle for a long long time but now it is time to reorder.  Worth every bit of $15.95.  This bottle is more than 10 years old!

      At the end of my oil painting session I wash my brushes in Gamsol, then take them to the sink and start washing them in Brush Flush and cool water.  It is amazing to me every single time, how much paint remains in the brushes.   This is one product I take with me everywhere I paint.

     This is a reminder to never use water that is very warm on your brushes.  You will loosen the glue that holds the bristles/hairs/fibers in place.

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 ~ Deborah Boyet ~

Wildside Art

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