Passion For Paper: Oil Pastels

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Monday, May 23, 2022

Painting with Matisse

I'm doing these Matisse copies in every sketchbook I have going. (The Goldfish is in my A4 Royal Talens.)

I'm especially enjoying replicating Matisse's use of patterns, in my own way of course; I could never accurately reproduce Matisse.

Sunday, May 22, 2022

Painting With Joy (and Matisse)

At Sketchbook Revival this year I was introduced to a wonderful artist Joy Ting Charde (@joycharde). I am taking a Creativebug Daily Practice she offers and have attended one of her "Paint With Joy" Zoom sessions.

On Zoom, we drew and painted works by Matisse. Joy is very loose and fun and I love that she uses multiple mediums - watercolor, oil pastel, watercolor pencils and pencil crayons.

Our homework assignment is to paint more Matisse works...more to come. 😀

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

A Walk in My Neighbourhood in Spring

Gelato, oil pastel, ink, pencil crayon on canvas paper

Thursday, February 5, 2015

Colour Those Birdies!

Janice wanted all of the bird sketches coloured:

My Beloved Black-Capped Chickadees

Birdies from my Colourful Brain

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Finding Inspiration for ICAD #19-21

I think it was Tammy at Yellow Daisy Art, the brains behind the ICAD project who did a summer to-do list on one of her index cards. It was a great chance to play with alphabet stamps.

PS - Camping for me means sleeping in the basement when the weather is too hot to sleep upstairs!

Art Projects for Kids make great ICAD projects!

Watercolor Crayon

Oil Pastel and Twinkling H2O's

Dion Dior was the inspiration for this one, and it is dedicated to my friend, Janice, who is getting a great laugh at all of the various supplies I'm using.

Thursday, May 23, 2013

You Must Do the Things You think You Cannot Do

For me right now, that's drawing faces.

Watercolors , Oil Pastels, Pan Pastels, Pencil Crayons

A bit of everything here - cow faces, human faces, many media. For this face I took my inspiration from Lynne Hoppe.

You must do the things you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Still Drawing and Coloring

Here's a fun exercise to try - a cubist face! The instructions are on this great blog from Kathy Barbro: Art Projects for Kids. Hey, I'm just a big kid.