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“Homage to Diego Rivera”

August 8, 2010 Art

This Oil Pastels drawing was done in my Drawing 2 class.  I enjoyed working on this one very much as I was able to try out a variety of oil pastel techniques.  Oil pastel art is different from other drawing mediums.  It isn’t quite like crayon or charcoal, yet it isn’t like painting with oils or [...]

How to use Oil Pastels

October 23, 2009 Oil Pastel Techniques

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 [...]

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Conte Crayon – Self Portrait

October 5, 2009 Art

This is a Conte Crayon drawing I did for an assignment in Drawing 2 class last semester.  I felt the piece came out really well, with the chiaroscuro contrasting darks and lights.  Conte Crayons are pretty awesome to work with as far as drawing mediums go.  They can be messy, with a lot of dust [...]

Ladybug drawing in oil pastels

April 15, 2009 Oil Pastel Art

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 good, I think. I [...]

TCC Student Art Show Award

April 6, 2009 Personal

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 [...]

Oil Pastel Flowers

April 1, 2009 Art

Oil Pastel Flowers! I did these in 2009 while learning how to use oil pastels in art school.  I find oil pastels are so much 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 [...]

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