New Sunday Studio Video...Painting a Wildflower Meadow

'Among the Thistles'           12x24          pastel         �Karen Margulis
available $300

It was a great Mother's Day.  I got to do my favorite things.....poking around thrift stores and painting! I found some good art and travel books in the thrift store and got a chance to spend the afternoon in the studio. I decided to do a Facebook Live broadcast to share the development of today's painting 'Among the Thistles'.  You can see the video on my You Tube channel here:

                                                     https://youtu.be/UPL2gpyp5UI

Here are a few details of the painting to give you some background:

• I am using Uart paper 500 grit that I cut into a 12x24 piece. I taped the piece to a piece of foamcore. I wanted a long and narrow piece of paper to capture this little slice of a meadow.
• I did an alcohol wash underpainting with Derwent Inktense sticks and rubbing alcohol.
• I used Terry Ludwig pastels mostly the Richard McKinley landscape set.
• I used Blair Low odor workable fixative to build the layers of the grass.
• I added the bumblebees at the very end of the painting using just a few simple marks.

I hope you enjoy the video. It is unedited in a very informal format but just imagine you are a fly on the wall of my studio watching me paint!

close up detail