Out and about again today. I thought I'd have a go with the oil pastels. I've not painted plein air with them before and wanted to have a go,...
Category: Oil pastels
Tree In Christ’s Fellows’ Garden
It's been 13 days since my last painting. I've just not been in the mood. But today I'm back. I thought I'd go for the oil pastels as a gentle...
Shaun Wallace, The Dark Destroyer
In yesterday's Bob Willis portrait, I felt a bit frustrated at how difficult it was to get a likeness using oil pastels when the face was so small....
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...
The Road To Glencoe
I risked doing an oil pastel painting indoors today. This landscape is based on the road into Glencoe from the East. I've been to Glencoe a...
The Old Man Of Stoor In Oil Pastel
I'm paying a second visit today to the Old Man Of Stoor on the Isle of Skye but this time with the oil pastels. This time, though, I'm using oil...
Oil Pastels: A Pause For Reflection
I've just reached the end of my first 12*8 inch oil pastel pad and thought I'd use this as an excuse to review my progress with the oil pastels. I...
James Anderson
I was in the mood to do another oil pastel portrait today and I picked a source photo of James Anderson, the third highest wicket taking test...
Bridge Near Oswaldkirk
Oil pastels are just too much fun. Every other painting at the moment is in oil pastel and it's an oil pastel day today. I thought I'd be...
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
After such a miserable effort yesterday, I had to go back to the oil pastels today. With the watercolours it's still touch and go whether I can...
Two Trees, Hartlip House
After a flop with the watercolours, I'm back to the oil pastels again, where everything always seems to go well and I can regain some confidence. ...
Animal Biscuit Valley, New Zealand
I'm still on the oil pastels but it's a landscape in New Zealand today. Well kind of. I've been a bit smart today and left out some rocks that...
Rory Burns
I noticed the other day that I'd still not used my black oil pastel. With watercolours, black's a pretty boring colour and a bad mixer. I can...
Annual Self Portrait 2022
It's time for the annual self portrait and after two years of inktense pencils, this year's portrait is in oil pastels. I have a long way to go...
Torres Del Paine National Park
Enough with the naked women, I'm back onto landscapes. This is three artworks in successive days, which is pretty unusual for me. The subject...
Sarah Ann
After a few weeks away following the loss of my father, I'm back to the artwork. And I'm glad I am. It was great to spend an hour and a half away...
Mika M, In Action
How about some figure drawing in oil pastel? I've tried it once before, here, without success but that was when I'd only just got the watercolours...
Ullapool
I fancied giving the oil pastels a go today and this is what I came up with. It's a view of Ullapool, a tiny town somewhere on the West Coast of...
Frank’s Wood, Leith Hill, Surrey
It's getting cold and wet outside so the number of watercolour and oil paintings that I'll be doing the rest of this year is numbered. Today I...
El Bandito
Today's painting started off from a reference photo of Lee Van Cleef in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly but I never could get any sort of likeness...