Stock photo of a homeless man on a bench in the park. Using muted, low value colours with a two small high chroma’s – red hat and blue sleeves

Portraiture in Oil Pastel with Samir Rakhmanov

Stock photo of a homeless man on a bench in the park. Using muted, low value colours with a two small high chroma's – red hat and blue sleeves

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March 19, 2025

← My third study, this one from a “selfie” rather than from life. Wow, this was a real challenge for me. Firstly in trying to stick to the 30 minutes and secondly in the application of the pastel, particularly with small marks. I do feel that I made progress and that the third study was more effective, though I don’t know whether that is because it was from a photo rather than from life. On grey pastel paper and trying out finger smoothing for the back ground and different irregular layers of. marks in the foreground →

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