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| Sue pulling on sock, Pastel on paper 22 x 24cm |
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| Figure with Beads, pastel on paper 6 x 6" |
At my life drawing group recently someone asked me how I came to begin making my 6 x 6" pastel life drawings. I told her that it is all about the colour. It's interesting the way different materials work to enhance the subject matter and what I want to say. I find pastels and their direct colour suits me when I want to get something down and I want to create a mood. They can also explain light. Big charcoal drawing are about gesture and light for me. I often use my drawings to begin something else. Figure with Beads was a starting point for Japanese Interior with Figure, if you can believe it...
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| Homework pastel on paper 6 x 6" |
Because oil paint usually requires time and different ways of applying it, I use it to describe different things. I have the same preoccupations but the process yields different results. If I were someone who made pictures in the same way every day I suppose my results would be different and much more similar to each other, but the way I was taught, by my California School abstract expressionist teachers, was to begin every day as though you know nothing and find a way through. Perhaps that explains my willingness to work across media
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| Japanese Interior with Figure oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm |
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| Spring Beads and Royal Blue pastel on paper 6 x 6" |
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