oil pastel oranges

reffing a lovely still life from unsplash, i believe.

done on slate blue 9 x 12″ canson mi-tients paper.

I’ve been doing a lot of underdrawing with the cray-pas expressionist pastels, which are a lot firmer, so they don’t layer that well with themselves but they behave really predictably underneath the rest of my pastels, and are still really quite lovely as a color spread themselves. I think this might be my new go-to process!

I might try giving this one a real glossy varnish, just to see how close I can get things to look to an oil painting. maybe doing that on paper is stupid, but worth a try!


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4 responses to “oil pastel oranges”

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      Shel Kahn

      ✌️

  1. oh wow that’s lovely!

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      Shel Kahn

      heck thanks!

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