Last ride

[ColorEnthusiast]

Soft pastels with a watercolor underpainting done on PastelMat 30x40 cm.
Reference is a photo I took at the end of our skiing at New Years Eve.

 

[ams]

Beautiful.

 

[P. Barrie]

Love the composition and perspective The depth and elevation are really convincing, great painting to “fall into”.

 

[Donna T]

I love the light on the snow! Such a beautiful scene!

 

[Artyczar]

Very nice, and it has a warm feeling to it, despite the cold environment.

 

[Terri]

You did a great job capturing the body posture of your skier. I like your wide sloping lines and those distant skies. Lovely work!

 

[ColorEnthusiast]

Thank you for taking time and commenting Anne, Patrick, Donna, Arty and Terri.

Terri, In fact I lied with the posture of the snowboarder. In the moment I took the photo he jumped into the scene from the left and I thought, wow this must look exceptional in the photo and when I checked the image later, I found I got him in a second his movement looked really awkward and he had a white parka difficult to separate from the snow, ...
At the end I studied license free photos with snowboarders to find a fitting posture and changed the colors of his parka. So I used artistic license to get it work.

 

[Perry]

Well done Esther!

 

[Jo Castillo]

This tells a great story of your skiing adventure. So well done with perspective and all!!

 

[Terri]

Thank you for taking time and commenting Anne, Patrick, Donna, Arty and Terri.

Terri, In fact I lied with the posture of the snowboarder. In the moment I took the photo he jumped into the scene from the left and I thought, wow this must look exceptional in the photo and when I checked the image later, I found I got him in a second his movement looked really awkward and he had a white parka difficult to separate from the snow, ...
At the end I studied license free photos with snowboarders to find a fitting posture and changed the colors of his parka. So I used artistic license to get it work.

So basically, you're telling me I'm not alone for having done this.

Artistic license clears many obstacles.

 

[Hawkmoth]

Great work Esther. It's not easy to capture the half light of dusk. I'm always interested in all the different combinations of media which you use, you are very versatile!

 

[ColorEnthusiast]

Thank you for taking time and commenting, Perry, Jo, Terri and Claudia.