Pavement and road are in place. But although the printed version is very good, I prefer to give it a personal touch.
Another problem I had to solve was my way of weathering. When I started using my pastel pencil I noticed some scratching on the surface of printed pavement. So I re-read an article about colouring black and white photographs. In this article the recommended the use of soft pastels. I decided to give that a try. In an art shop I asked some advice and I went home with a small range of Schmincke soft pastels, fitting to my color palette for Caroline Street.
Schimcke has all pastel colors in 5 different shades from dark to light.
These pastels are very, very soft indeed. So applying it directly to my textures didn’t work out. Then I used some fine sanding paper to get some pastel powder. Almost like pigment.
With a very fine synthetic brush I applied a small amount of pastel on the texture and with a cotton but I worked it on the surface. This looked very promising, so I decided to go on with this method.
For the pavement I used Neutral Grey M and for the sides of the kerbing Neutral Grey D. Both colors I also for weathering some parts of the road.
For the kerbings I used mixture of Grey violet O, Neutral Grey D and some Silver.
I used Sepia Brown O for a start and for some parts Vandyke brown O for the road. The yard is weathered with the same colors, but I used more layers of Vandyke brown O there.
On the textured Fine Art Photo paper it is possible to use also pastel pencils. I used the pencils also to color edges before gluing.
If anyone has useful information, comments or suggestions please let me know.
Kind regards,
Job
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