Red Shoes - painting in oil pastels
I decided to go with oil pastels, after much thought, because I really want to try them out on canvas. I have only done one 12" x 12" canvas in this medium before. I am using Caran d'Ache Neopastels and I have about 18 colours altogether, although I did not use all of them for this painting!
I started off with a base layer then followed up with further layers of various colours appliying them very lightly. There seemed to be endless challenges to get the shades and effects that I wanted! And even applying the layers as lightly as possible I found that it was very easy to wind up with an area of sticky goo!!! The first image below shows the first attempts at the head and upper torso, while the second shows the finished painting (altho' it may get a few touches!). Now I must wait and see if it will dry off sufficiently for me to apply some varnish - probably a few weeks to wait for that.
I started off with a base layer then followed up with further layers of various colours appliying them very lightly. There seemed to be endless challenges to get the shades and effects that I wanted! And even applying the layers as lightly as possible I found that it was very easy to wind up with an area of sticky goo!!! The first image below shows the first attempts at the head and upper torso, while the second shows the finished painting (altho' it may get a few touches!). Now I must wait and see if it will dry off sufficiently for me to apply some varnish - probably a few weeks to wait for that.
4 comments:
What lovely blending you've achieved with the pastels...The soft, delicate colors contrasting with the stark black works well here. Lesly, not everyone can do this level of work; this is beautiful.
DJ thank you and I am glad that you like it. I can see areas where things haven't worked quite so well ... but on the whole I am pleased. If the thing dries off enough to varnish then I will definitely do another oil pastel on canvas.
OOH i like this very pretty :)
wow these are great
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