Yulia, thanks for your comment. I love your art! Hoping to see the ‘Night Fantasy’ finished soon.

Wow, thanks Kristi! I would love to use some of your photos. I’ll be in touch on that (some time after school semester ends!). Thanks for the comments I appreciate it. – Eric

I like to see how you are using the oil pastels… such a soft effect! Really nice…
Sennelier are my favorite – not to mention are the most butteriest on the market! I do occasional oil pastel renderings but with more texture. How do you achieve such a smooth finish? Mineral spirits?

jennifer phillips’s last blog post..Happy Easter Every Bunny!

The thumbnail of this actually looks like a photo, so I guess that is pretty good as I seem to remember pastels are quite chunky.

Do you have a DeviantArt account? That is another good place to sell art. Some people manage to make a living from it.

This is such a great piece Eric! I loved ladybugs as a child – there is such a vibrant cuteness to them! And you captured it so uniquely especially with that background paper.

Now my next question is where is the praying mantis, I would love to see how you did that one

Nice work on this one. I saw the comment you left on my Burning Babylon (http://www.trendyink.net/blog/2009/04/22/reggae-wallpaper-burning-babylon/#comments) post and followed your link here.

peace, keep up the good works,
zOnk.oNe

Your DeviantArt sketches are impressive. You have a good eye for details. I am always wondering, are your art people naturally gifted at being able to draw things that actually look like what they are of, is it something they have learned or a bit of both?

When I was a bit younger, I sort of wanted to take the graphical route, but found my calling in programming and other geeky stuff. I always wondered if I would have got good at art if I spent more time doing it. I can generally do a good job on the computer, like my icons, but am pretty bad with a pencil.

I went to school with two children of a relatively well known artist (Peter Edwards) and both of them were very highly regarded back then and I think are both involved in art now. I don’t know if this was upbringing or something else.

I’m not really an art critic, I only received the link to this post from a friend who thought the picture is great, but for what it’s worth I do want to say the photo is impressive. I really thought it is digital art until I read you used oil colours… It looks amazingly photo-like!

Wow I really love the surreal look of the lady bug ready to jump off the page. I am trying to learn more soft strokes in my painting. Like I said, I am learning. These are great.