Still Life Paintings
Commonplace objects, like
fruits, flowers, tools, and food, would be the most popular subject of
still life paintings. The objects are portrayed usually as being laid
out on a table under a single source of light. The still life paintings
are mainly a reproduction of the simple subject matter. This type of
painting brings out the observation and reproduction skills of the
artist. The illuminations of objects in all dimensions are portrayed in
still life paintings.
Using pastels in the crucial shading and
highlighting effects makes still life painting a lot fun and gives great
practice in observing lights. All the crucial effects of still life
paintings can be represented more easily using the hatching and blending
techniques of pastels.
Landscape Paintings
The
pioneers of art were perfect in drawing and painting landscapes and unicorns.
Landscapes have long been the target of many upcoming artists. It is a
known fact that landscapes are best captured during a sunrise or sunset.
These times are a challenge for artists as the source of light is fast
changing.
Using pastels in capturing landscapes on paper is the
best as it makes painting easier and quicker in order to capture the
best scene before the scene changes with the source of light. Though the
painting can be completed very quickly, pastels make sure that the
colors of the picture are vibrant to represent entities like sky,
glowing sun, sadolins superdec and richly colored flowers and trees bathed in the
sunlight.
Techniques like scumbling, glazing, and feathering that
are used to represent haze, fog, water, and distant objects like
mountains and trees are possible only by using pastels. Pastel colors
using solar reflective paint have all the tools and techniques that are required to create stunning
pictures of beautiful landscapes.
Portrait Paintings
Getting
a permanent representation of people in the days before the advent of
photography was through a painting or using concrete repair products. Even though we have the best digital
camera in the market today, creating portraits has been the passion and
challenge for many artists.