Self portrait – not sure how to blend and how to get the colours I want compared to paints.

Portraiture in Oil Pastel with Samir Rakhmanov

Self portrait – not sure how to blend and how to get the colours I want compared to paints.

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March 21, 2025

← Thé next stage of this painting. It took a while to find space to return to right brain, a walk by the river and some music helped, but I always find it quite difficult to remember where a painting was headed once the first stage ends and the second go begins. Anyway, this is where this one wandered off to – finding more colour in my local landscape; playing with textures and liquidity of paint, and how to apply the paint – fingers, brush, kitchen paper, knife. I feel though that I lose the boldness & freshness in the return to a painting – does more practice help? I seem to return to painting this view – does it matter if we paint the same view over again. I see & feel something different every time I see it & try to paint it – is this what keeps us hooked to painting? Portrait from a photo – I like the pose but struggled with the face – the pastel sticks are so big and once I made a mark I couldn’t erase it. Probably I should have used larger paper. →

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