santorini sundown

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Comment by Annie Cullen on February 14, 2011 at 11:53

Thanks Sharon - shadows are fun in pastel  - its somehow easier to get all the gradations of tone

Comment by Sharon Lambert on February 14, 2011 at 1:15

Love this pastel work!  Well done you have captured the scene perfectly.

Comment by Annie Cullen on February 8, 2011 at 20:33

No  -not plein air - pastel painting doesn't lend itself to that (sketches maybe) too many pastels

I used a few photos I'd taken -and cropped and mixed a bit.

Comment by Tova Gabrielle on February 8, 2011 at 14:34

remarkable.  was this from a photo or plein air?

Comment by Annie Cullen on February 6, 2011 at 19:04

This one is pastel on pastel paper (a rust background paper if I remember rightly). It was 60x40cm. Santorini is full of odd angles and shapes being built on a steep slope (side of an ancient caldera) so everything is packed in. The challenge was the perspective as it is not at all conventional. But I love the way the light bounces round and pastel was a good medium to do this with.