Pastel on Canson paper approximately 16x20.
I took a portrait class from Daniel Green at his annual summer workshop in his home in North Salem NY back in 2005. He demonstrated a pastel portrait one evening from a live model that I was absolutely mesmerized with. I have been using his techniques of marking off the head into four equal sections, using Nupastels to lay in the drawing and then working from dark to light with softer pastels. I did this painting 4 or 5 years ago and have learned so much since then. This was a quick painting to give my mother for Christmas. My grandmother has since passed away but this painting hangs in my mom's home for her to remember how special and loving my grandmother was. I also have my grandfather posted in this blog in another post. We miss you MawMaw!
