Shades of Gray
No new update today. I’ve gotten some very good advice from an accomplished landscape artist, and I’m taking a step back to evaluate what I’ve done, and how to make it better. In the meantime, take a look at the landscapes of Susan Borgas to see what a pastel landscape should look like.
So today I began by comparing my pastel to a gray scale image of it.
Much to my surprise, it’s not so bad in shades of gray!
Then I made a gray scale image of the photo, and used it to compare to my gray scale pastel. My values are way off in several places, such as the sunlight on the far rocks, the right side trees which are too light, and too bright to be situated in deep shade, and the closest rocks are much darker in the photo.
I’d post the original, but that would violate the photographer’s copyright. 
So, after I brush off some offending colors, I’m off to read my newest copy of The Pastel Journal. It arrived in my mailbox today, and there’s an article in it about how to critique your own artwork- how timely.
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Oh I am blushing now Lisa!
I keep forgetting about changing the image of my work to grey scale. It might save a few wrinkles on my face from all that squinting at my work that I do
Lisa,
I love the colors in this - oranges and blues. And the greyscale version looks good as well. I also forget to do that too often. It’s such a great tool!
My first experience with the gray scale method was studying Van Gogh with the Fine Line Artists group. That wasn’t very long ago, which is probably why I even thought about doing it.
Analyzing what’s gone wrong with this is taking much longer than I expected, and I really appreciate the input. Although frustrating, it’s been a lot easier to keep going because of the comments I’ve been getting.
Thank you so much!
-Lisa