Hens Legs

Anne is nearly ready with her hen's legs to add to our composite "mystery" project (see earlier posts).  This leaves Lennard's hen's breast to complete the project in the next couple of weeks.

Project Four (start)

Five of us started our new project today, whilst the others continued with their Hens Project. Mainly it's a twist on a technique we learned last term.  We are applying the pastel as a powder by scraping the pastels against a hard edge object such as a palette knife, kitchen knife, or credit card. There is no drawing done at all on the surface, the drawing is down using the pastel dust particles. Areas are masked-off initially with masking tape. Fixing is done several times during the process, "little and often". In the resources page there is a step by step photo guide "Project Four" to remind us of the demonstration done in class. Here are the first stages of the paintings.  

Mystery revealed

Our mystery project is nearly done. Just waiting for three pictures to be completed over the next week or so. Here is the composite picture so far, minus a few parts (legs and breast)!  Two details are shown, followed by the full image: