Thursday, August 22, 2019

Workshop Study: NYC Street (Pastel on Paper)


Here's another study from the pastel workshop with Tony Allain.  He showed us a simple way to render crowds of people, and I chose a photo from a NYC street to try it out.

His advice not to eliminate the lime green shape on the right margin was spot on. I was going to leave it out, thinking that drawing attention to the edge of a painting would just distract -- at least that's what I've read. In this case, it adds a nice unexpected pop of color, proving that sometimes it pays to break the rules about composition.

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