Tiger WIP Update 7

Tweak it some and signed it.  I haven't mentioned lately that the awesome reference for this was used with permission from Woxy on Deviant Art.  Thank you Woxy!

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Tiger WIP Update 6

Worked on this for a few more hours today and except for tweaking, it's finished :)
Rick now says it's his new favorite so I guess I accomplished what I wanted to!
Before now the long haired kitty Sweet Huia was his favorite.
I need to figure out what color to use when I sign it.  Any suggestions?
Any Suggestions for helping me name this one??
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Tiger WIP Update 5

I was able to spend about three hours on this today.  I'm so close to being finished.  Probably about another two or three hours. 
Hope you like it and I'm not boring you with my numerous updates.

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Tiger WIP Update 4

I was able to put some time into this and it's really coming along now.  I don't really know what I'm doing but it seems to be working and I'm really starting to like this one.  I love happy accidents and that's what happened with the background LOL!

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Tiger WIP Update 3

Up until today, I didn't have enough done to post another update.  This is going slowly but surely.  I really have no idea what I'm doing but seem to be doing it LOL!
Most of the background was created with complimentary colors of red and green with the added color of blue.  All work is being done at this point with Faber Castell PITT Pastel pencils.
Hope you are enjoying the process as much as I am!

Just for fun, I played with some new charcoal pencils that I bought.  This drawing is a 5" x 6" on cheap sketching paper using 2B and 4B Generals Charcoal for the blended background and then using graphite H, 2B - 4B for the rest.
Had a lot of fun exploring new techniques with blending.
Reference for this lovely wolf is by DallieDee on Flickr under the Creative Commons License

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Tiger WIP Update 2

I had so much to do today outside that I didn't get much time to work on this painting. I did work on it for about 1.5 hours today.  Tried to increase the orange color a little bit on the Tiger.  Still need to "push my darks" with the viewers left side of the Tiger.  I also need to add more blue to the leaves because they are looking a tad yellow to me.
I worked a lot on that background.  I'm basically creating and making it up as I go.  Hopefully, it's looking OK?  I stopped working on this when it was time to feed my horse and dog.  After I took a scan and put it back, it was time to do some more painting. I painted for 3.5 hours straight and it wasn't art LOL.  I applied a wood stain to our front porch and stairs. 
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Tiger WIP Update - 1

WOW has it really been that long since I worked on this?  I finally got back to doing something with this painting.  It's taking a lot of time to get the colors the way I want them and I don't have a lot of colors to choose from.  Still coming along.  I worked on this a little over an hour today but my back is really bothering me so that's all I was able to do.  Might be able to get back to it later today.  This is on Cason MiTeintes paper using PITT Pastel pencils by FaberCastell.
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Tiger- WIP Update

Well, I got a little carried away today while working on this painting and forgot to stop and take progress pictures.  I used all the same colors as the previous post an also introduced new colors to the painting.
The new colors were:
102 Cream, 165 Juniper Green, 168 Earth Green Yellowishh, 184 Dark Naples Ochre, 233 Cold Gray IV, 181 Payne's Gray, 230 Cold Gray I and 131 Medium Flesh.
I continued on with the fur and started added in the darker areas. I also started on the leaves.
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ACEO Horse

I was really tempted to just delete these posts.  No matter how much I play with this, I'm still not happy with it.  Note to self, Strathmore Bristol Smooth doesn't really play nicely with Pastel!
One thing I did accomplish while playing with this tiny size is got a pretty close match to actual colors. I decided since this is my journey and it's for all explorations, I'm leaving this and showing you the final LOL!
Working this small is definitely an art all in itself. If I want to continue with it, I'm going to have to practice just as hard as with the rest of my art.

Fletcher - WIP more refining

Couldn't leave it alone so I've done a little more refining :)

Fletcher WIP

Here's today's progress!  Now the refining starts.

Longhaired Tabby -- Final

Sweet Huia is now for better or worse, finished.  This is my third Pastel painting and I am thoroughly enjoying the exploration of this medium.  My next piece is going to be a horse.  Surprised?  Probably not if you know anything about me LOL!

Update on Tiger -- Pastel

Here's what I did with the Tiger face I was working on.  I really like how it turned out but also found out a few more things about these pastels.  This is definitely a learning in progress LOL! 
I probably shouldn't have tried something so small for my second piece LOL! To give you an idea of the size, the paper is 5 x 7 and of course the drawing is smaller than that!

More Pastels - Tiger WIP

I really debated posting this.  It's not on my other pastel paper and I'm really not sure what kind of paper it is.  I have a 5x7 sketch book that says it's suitable for all dry media.  It's a 110 gsm so I decided to try doing something smaller with my pastel pencils.
Let's just say, I'm still learning LOL!