Shoeshine Boy
Artist: Ivan Jones
- Size: 22 x 18 x 0 inches (55.9 x 45.7 x 0 cm)
- Soft pastel, pastel pencils, pastel paper
- One-Off / Ready to Send
- Framed
About the artwork
This image was created from a photograph taken in an Ecuadorian marketplace by a friend. I enjoyed the narrative and creating the folds of material using sharpened pastel pencils. One can imagine being there and absorbing the atmosphere! It is completed using soft pastels and pastel pencils on Artspectrum colourfix paper. The sharpened pencils create the detail and the background is blended using polystyrene sticks to give the three dimensional effect to the completed painting.
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PaintingsFigurativeChildrenMedium (16 - 30")PastelMulti-ColouredRealismPhotorealism
Ivan Jones
I am a retired veterinary surgeon who has become a pastel artist. I was introduced to pastels as a teenager by a friend of my father’s and in fact I still have remnants of my first set of pastels. I passed A level art at 16, then went on to complete a veterinary science degree - my understanding of animals allows me to add that something extra to my artwork. I have completed a large number of works in the past 15 years, many of which can be seen on my website. I feel that pastels have a great vibrancy and richness of colour that is often under appreciated. I work largely from photographs and undertake commission work as well as create artwork in a wide range of subject matter. I like to give each piece a three dimensional effect and det... (see more)
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