Couple Snuggling in Bed

Another in the Enamorado Con Amor/In Love with Love series.  Part of love is intimacy, but of course not all intimacy denotes love.  Here it does, and the couple sparkles in the play of light and shadow.  

 

Couple Snuggling in Bed, pastels, 65 x 50 cm/25.5 x 20"
Couple Snuggling in Bed, pastel painting, 65 x 50 cm/25.5 x 20″ 

 

Couple Snuggling in Bed detail
Couple Snuggling in Bed detail

Couple Snuggling in Bed detail
Couple Snuggling in Bed detail

Couple Snuggling in Bed detail
Couple Snuggling in Bed detail

 

The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints.  The binder has a neutral hue and low intensity.  

Pastel is challenging because it is mixed and blended on the paper or other surface.  Colors cannot be tested on a palette although with the new powder pastels you can.  This work was done with sticks.  Changes are not easy to make, as you can not just paint over things.

In use since the Renaissance, they were very popular in the 18th century.  My favorite pastel painter is Renoir.  

Two Men Dance

Another in the series of the “Pareja Enamorado con Amor/Couple in Love with Love” series explores the world of same sex love and romance.

 

 

Two Men Dance, acrylics, 30 x 42 cm, 11.5 x 16.5
Two Men Dance, A3/29. cm x 42 cm, 11.5″ x 16.5″

Love takes many forms.  We should not oppress it but encourage its flowering and deepen the bonds that hold us together.

Pareja Enamorada/Couple in Love — Women Embrace 1 and II

Women Embrace 1 and II

This part of the “Pareja Enamorado con Amor/Couple in Love with Love” series explores the world of same sex love.

 

Women Embrace II, acrylics on paper, A3, 16.5 x 11.7"
Women Embrace II, acrylics on paper, A3, 29.7 X 42CM/16.5 x 11.7″ 

 

 

Women Embrace 1

Women Embrace I, acrylics on paper, A3, 16.5 x 11.7"
Women Embrace I, acrylics on paper, A3, 29.7 X 42CM/16.5 x 11.7″

 

Love takes many forms.  We should not oppress it but encourage its flowering and deepen the bonds that hold us together.