19 augustus 2022

i'm thinking about maybe a week of daily posts, possibly longer (ten days). starting tomorrow, i think.

i bought some new sketchbooks & a few new oil pastels and i'm loving doing landscapes with the pastels, so that might be what i'm chasing, this coming week. it's quite possible it will turn into something else (whenever i'm sure i know something, that knowing turns itself against me), and that's fine. we will see.

the pastels i've ordered are sennelier pastels. it seems my taste in art materials is quite expensive, which i hate, but the feel-part of making has always been important to me. i'm not talking about the psychological feeling but the actual touch of hand and materials and (/on) paper-feeling; & i really love the way sennelier pastels feel. & some colours are transparent, which make them so interesting. and the colours themselves also are superior, i feel, to any other brand. (their white is shiny though; horrifying.)

i will share pictures of the colours i ordered when they get here; monday, i think.

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a friend of mine recently spend some time near the english coast (she lives in the uk) & send me many photographs of her surroundings at the time; i've been using them as reference. (she's also a blogger: flowerville -- she's lovely.)

with these landscapes i actually did use quite a few neopastels so i guess i do like some of them: ash grey, khaki green, and cream (that one i really like, must get some more of that colour). and their white isn't shiny so that's good. one of the mungyo gallery pastels is also a favourite; olive. i hope to find a sennelier one that looks alike, since you can't get mungyo's open stock, and neopastel's olive looks nothing like it.