Meet the Artist - Jesse Dattilo

I began painting with pastels a few years ago and immediately thought, “What fun!” To me, it was like playing or scribbling with chalk on the sidewalk when I was a kid.
 
 There are two kinds of pastels:  oil and chalk.  I experimented with both but chose the more traditional, which is chalk.  Chalk pastels go back hundreds of years in art.
 
 One of the wonderful qualities is certainly the great variety of colors - literally, every hue one could think of.  One can “mix” colors on the paper, but it’s not like mixing liquid paints on your surface.  It’s done by overlapping a lighter shade over a dark so that the dark “bleeds” through. One could have 4 or 5 layers of colors in the end.
 
 The typical surface used is a gritty paper-like sandpaper.  The grittier the paper, the more textured the effect.
 
 I hope you like the show!  Please give me your thoughts - I’d love hearing what you think.

Contact Information

Email: jessedattilo@gmail.com