Holiday Ornaments day 26 for 30 in 30 Challenge

Holiday Ornaments

6" square

Pastels on paper

Had a little trouble with the photo on this one, the silver ornament came through pinkish when I got the gold to look right and I don't think the metallic effects show very well. The ornaments are in metallic Henri Roche' pastels while the green velvet backdrop is in Rembrandt and Unison pastels. 

Another page in my pastel journal and another experiment with Roche' metallic pastels. I'll be reviewing these soon, want one more experiment on sanded pastel paper before I post about them.

Holiday Ornaments Sketch

Wow, two days in a row! Guess I might almost be back to Daily Painting, wish me luck on that. Might manage more than once a month. We'll see if this continues. It's just a loose sketch but it's big, colorful and bold, hangs on the wall next to the decorations themselves and it's cheery. Some art needs to be done just because it's fun.

I'm happiest with the texture on the shiny turquoise and gree nones, the purple matte finish one is camera-distorted and looks better in person, the glitter magenta ones look a little better in life but were the least successful. I'll have to work on "glitter covered texture." But that's what sketching is for, experiments!

9" x 12" Masters aka Charvin Watersoluble Pastel Sticks (hard pastels) on brown Bogus rough recycled sketch paper. I think I'll keep doing big sketches on this paper, it's so handy. For me 9 x 12" is big!

(Edited to replace the photo with a better photo I took after it was hanging on the wall, the first one was washed out.)