Posts Tagged ‘oil pastels’

How to use Oil Pastels

23, Oct 2009

Drawing in Oil Pastels is awesome!  When drawing with oil pastels, you get many of the benefits of both painting in oil as well as drawing.  You get to experience mixing and use of colors, like you would with painting, but you also don’t have to put all your drawing skills to the side in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Oil pastels drawing – Christmas ornaments

22, Mar 2009

This oil pastel drawing was done in class, and some at home from a photo.  I was pleased with the result.  Art in oil pastel can be tricky.  Although this piece turned out fairly colorful, I always remember that value is the most important.  Oil pastels can also be difficult sometimes to get the fine [...]


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