{"id":1726,"date":"2014-02-27T13:54:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T13:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/?page_id=1726"},"modified":"2018-05-10T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:11:04","slug":"painting-progress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/painting-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"c7\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">Here I would like to introduce the painting progress of my pastel portraits<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">First, I make a slight sketch with a pastel on canvas. This should have a granular or rough surface that allows the recording of several pastel pigment layers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">Then I paint large areas in several layers with pastels. In order to strike the right tone often have different chalks are used. They can then be blurred into one another with a finger or a pastel brush.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva;\">Details I draw with pastel pencils. It makes sense to buy a large supply of sharpeners, since the blades are worn by the hardness of pastel crayons very quickly. For fine details, it is essential to use very sharp pastels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the creation of animal portraits in size S (9.44&#8243; x 12.59&#8243;) I usually need between 25 and 30 hours, drawings and paintings with a larger size longer. Of course, it depends on the respective\u00a0portrait, for example, whether I have to draw an ornate halter on a horse or a collar of a dog.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"font-style: normal;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2281 size-full\" title=\"pastel paintings step by step by Katja Sauer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Arabianstallion-Peleng-step-by-step.jpg\" alt=\"Painting progress step by step by Katja Sauer\" \/><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I would like to introduce the painting progress of my pastel portraits First, I make a slight sketch with a pastel on canvas. This should have a granular or rough surface that allows the recording of several pastel pigment layers. Then I paint large areas &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/painting-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"morelink-icon\">Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1726","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8042,"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1726\/revisions\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katja-sauer.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}