Shadow study

Margaret Ferguson · 02-10-2008, 04:23 PM

Just finished this one, pastels on Sansfix paper.
I'm not sure whether to keep her or try to sell her in our local gallery, something I'm not very familiar with doing.

Enzie Shahmiri · 02-10-2008, 09:18 PM

Margaret, I love it! So rich looking and such a great expression!

Margaret Ferguson · 02-20-2008, 02:49 AM

Thank you Enzie, it was very kind of you to reply.
I thought I'd try another with a darker background

Debra Norton · 02-20-2008, 12:01 PM

Margaret, this is beautiful. I love softness of the shadowed side, and you've really made her look three dimensional. Very nice.

Thomasin Dewhurst · 02-20-2008, 01:21 PM

Margaret - I especially like the second one because with that one you have again moved forward with your seven-league boot strides! You controlled everything so well - this time looking at the model and the drawing with more intellectual detachment but without losing your energy and passion. Wonderful.

If you feel you can't give up this drawing to a gallery just start another one and you'll soon find your affections with attach themselves to the new work, and then you can take this one (and others) to the gallery. I definitely think you should approach a gallery with your work!

Margaret Ferguson · 02-20-2008, 02:26 PM

Thank you so much, particularly Thomasin. for your helpful comments.
It's a greater leap than I'd expected, going from hobbyist to selling work, lots of emotions attached (I'm just lucky it's not my main source of income!)
I'm going to the Pastel Society in London in 2 weeks, can't wait; I'll be meeting so many other pastelists and hope to learn greatly from the experience.
Thank you again, I feel very much encouraged
Margaret

Carlos Ygoa · 02-21-2008, 04:27 AM

Margaret,

I find that you have an extremely sensitive perception of colour and you know exactly how to translate what your eyes see onto your paper. Your control of the medium is masterful in the modelling of the form and in the execution of detail which I notice in these 2 pieces is a little more defined. Very nice work. You should have all the confidence in the world approaching a gallery and in meeting the other pastellists.
Good luck!

Claudemir Bonfim · 02-21-2008, 01:32 PM

Great job! I liked the second one very, very much.

Margaret Ferguson · 02-22-2008, 02:52 AM

Thank you Claudemir. Carlos, I appreciate your detailed comments. Plenty to consider and to keep working on.