by Bob Diercksmeier | Jun 16, 2017 | Pastels |
In the past few weeks I’ve completed two more pastel drawings that are based on two pencil drawings I did of the same subjects. My goal for both pieces is to give them a tonalist feel, and have the color, lighting, atmosphere and mood draw the viewer into the...
by Bob Diercksmeier | Jun 2, 2017 | Pencils |
I recently completed a few more pencil drawings, and these differ a bit from the first batch I posted here on the site. The two shown in this post are value studies for a couple of pieces that I’m working on that feature more of a tonalist feel. The first is an...
by Bob Diercksmeier | May 19, 2017 | Pastels |
I’ve completed a few pastels in recent weeks that are based on pencil drawings I created. I do a pastel color study before creating a final oil painting — the goal of the pastel drawing is to work out the color palette I’ll use for the piece. I do my...
by Bob Diercksmeier | May 5, 2017 | Pencils |
Recently I’ve been working on a few pencil drawings of subjects from my sketchbook. I create these drawings before I do the pastel color study for the final oil painting. The goal of the pencil drawing is to define the values, the darks and lights of the piece....
by Bob Diercksmeier | Apr 21, 2017 | Paintings, Pastels, Pencils, Sketches |
As I continued to evolve my working process, I moved on from my Kohala series to another subject — trees. This was an interesting subject for me to take on, because I am trying to keep the representational details in my pieces to a minimum, to focus on color,...
by Bob Diercksmeier | Apr 14, 2017 | Paintings, Pastels, Pencils, Sketches |
As I began my latest body of landscape work, I needed to work through what I was going to draw and paint, and the accompanying considerations of my working method. This included subject matter, compositional strategy, how much detail I would include in each...
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