Archive for April, 2009

Ladybug drawing in oil pastels

15, Apr 2009

My latest oil pastels art … a ladybug drawing for Drawing 2 class. The assignment was to draw a bug, really up close, using oil pastels. I wish I could post some of the pieces that others did for class too. Several of them were amazing! This one turned out pretty [...]

TCC Student Art Show Award

6, Apr 2009

On Saturday, I won an award at TCC’s 38th Annual Student Art Show.  The award was in the drawing category, specifically, the Tidewater Art Alliance and One Eleven Art Award of Excellence in Drawing.
It was a tremendous honor to be selected as an award winner.  There were some seriously amazing pieces by all the students [...]

Oil Pastel Flowers

1, Apr 2009

Oil Pastel Flowers!
I did these a few nights ago.  I find oil pastels can be fun to work with — if you have artist-quality pastels!  Otherwise, it can really be frustrating and even hamper development of the piece.
The base colors here are done with Cray-Pas Expressionist, which are so-so quality in my opinion.  I used [...]


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