Finished this painting/drawing last night. From a photo I took here in my hometown of Marshall a while back. 11x14 in soft pastels, few pastel pencils, and pan pastels on horizon blue color Canson Velvet pastel paper.
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Here’s a couple of recent ones in oil pastel. I used a cuticle pusher to scrape up bits of oil pastel and add detail and texture–so many things can be art supplies! The box turtle reference photo was given to me by a friend, the other reference photo was taken by me in a local park. This is Mungyo and Kuelox oil pastels (I have Sennelier oil pastels but like my cheaper oil pastels better!) on Fabriano mixed media paper. 9”x12”. Critiques welcome. Thank you.
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You are doing some incredible things with oil pastels. Personally, I think it is the most difficult media to work with. Thanks for sharing your work, and including the details of size and materials used.
Terri
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Thanks for your kind feedback Terri. I know lots of folks aren’t oil pastel fans. I think if I just used them straight out of the box, without any tools, I wouldn’t like to work with them. To me the tools I use with them make all the difference.
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Here is a drawing from the Pencil Drawing: The Guide to Graphite Lesson (Module 12). This took quite a few hours. I used a 6B .9 Pentel Mechanical Pencil Lead holder on Bachmore 68 lb 9”x12” Sketch Pad. Acid free, fine texture, smooth.Contrast in the background needs some work. It’s fun watching things come together that I didn’t intend to happen at first 
I’m still working detail and contrast and will post when I’m happy
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UniPin 003 fineliner and Winsor and Newton watercolors on coldpressed watercolorpaper. 18x15cm
Have you seen this beautiful little bird in the wild yet?
If you want to see how I made this artwork, you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/GqEEjwXCYbE
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250gr rough Hahnemühle paper 17x24cm Nevskaya Palitra White Nights Watercolor
Painting and Chocolate Tutorial
Had some challenge with the fins and lost the small one on the body🙈
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Hi @DaveK
Be proud of your accomplishment with this drawing. It looks really good. Cheers to you as you continue on your artistic journey.
Terri
Hi Twilah @Bearinthegarden
These look great. Oil pastel is a difficult media and you are doing well with it. Thanks for sharing.
Terri
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Hi @Appelmoes
I’m just getting caught up and see you’ve added to your collection of birds. I’m not surprised at how wonderful they are. Thanks for keeping us updated with your accomplishments.
Terri
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Hi Elina
I love how colorful your artwork is. Just makes me happy looking at it.
Terri
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I added contrast and detail while working with the water a bit. Also balanced the tone and textures of the big rocks. It’s really hard lifting the pencil and calling it done.
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I don’t see enough cutesy roadrunner themed art so I made one lol. I got bored by the time I got to the tree limbs in the background and forgot which colors of green I was using…but the chaotic Christmas bird is cute lol.
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I really enjoyed this piece from the graphite course, the water certainly looks like it really is flowing through this stream. It’s funny, the way you drew the trees on the left and right are kind of similar to how I draw tree, I normally call them the squiggly trees. I guess great minds think alike. Really nice piece, keep up the good work DaveK.
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I love whimsical art! That’s a lovely roadrunner!
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I’m sharing this here because someone had asked about pastel ground. This is my first time using pastel ground. I used it on Fabriano mixed media paper, then I toned it with a rust-orange gouache. It did create tooth, but I didn’t care for the way it behaved, at least for this particular subject. I wasn’t able to add many layers or achieve much detail, blending was nearly impossible, and clearly the grain created by the ground is very obvious. I used pan pastels, sticks, and pencils. I think this ground may work for large, loose pastel pieces, but I don’t feel it worked for this small, 12”x9” piece of this red panda.
Photos: the ground, underpainting, finished painting
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That really interesting, I haven’t hear of this product before, but it does seem to be very related to watercolor ground, which allows surfaces like wood or glass to accept watercolor paint. I have used this product, the Titanium white version is the best. Really cool, there is a lot of texture showing through the piece, maybe you might need to place more material because other areas look just fine. The drawing looks really good as well.
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Thanks for your feedback. I haven’t used watercolor ground. A problem I’m having with this is that I can’t put down anymore material. It won’t accept anymore layers.
I did note that it the surface seems to be rejecting more material. Watercolor ground does have this problem, layering materials like with Inktense or watercolor pencils, but once you use water, you have cover up those problems. The pastel ground might be something used in limit.
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