Photo of Red Rock Canyon, Waterton Park, Alberta
While at Red Rock Canyon I set up a camp table, chair and spread out my pastels. I did a live plein air pastel landscape. Over several hours I worked while various visitors came by to see my work. People are very interested to see an artist working live in location. I even had an offer to buy this incomplete piece but was unable to meet up with the visitors later in the park to exchange information.
I chose a rust colored pastel paper to work on and clipped it to large drawing board. I used soft pastel to work the basic shapes and conte sticks when I began to paint finer detail.
Over time the sun's position shifted, clouds blew past and then a fine drizzle began so I packed up my supplies. I took several reference photos so that I could complete the landscape at home.
Plein Air Pastel Landscape
This photo of the pastel landscape is washed out in the sky from the camera flash. It is obvious that I need to work more blues into the stream and different shades of green and blue into the trees. Also the bank on the left needs some adjustments to appear steeper and the railings need to diminish as they retreat for proper perspective.
I will post a completed painting at a later date.
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