It's my birthday and the front page headline on stash news is that I’m going…
Bob Willis
Look, I’ll make this quick today. I was in the mood to draw a portrait and decided to go for an oil pastel of the late Bob Willis. I started outdoors but moved inside as it was too windy out there.
This is what I’ve ended up with. I obviously wasn’t in the right mood to draw hands properly. There’s no likeness in the face. It wasn’t too bad early on but I thought I could do better so did some fiddling. The result of the fiddling is that Bob’s face is much to dark compared to his arms. And you can’t do unlimited fiddling with oil pastels: you can fiddle much more than with watercolour but you do eventually reach the point where the paint is on too thick and lots of it has been absorbed into the paper. That’s what’s happened here: I can’t do any more with this now.
The clothes are good and the hair was good at one point. I did put this one on the reject pile but it started getting positive comments on Facebook, so I’m putting it up for sale.
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