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...
Oil pastels
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...
High Cup Nick
This is High Cup Nick, a huge chasm up in the Pennines. I've been meaning to paint it for years after seeing the source photo in the pages of the...
Fog Over Queendown Warren
Just the one oil pastel piece today. When I was out exploring Queendown Warren the other week, I took a photo of this stile as it looked like a...
Malayavanta Hill, In Oil Pastel
Oil pastel paintings are (for me, for now) faster than watercolours, so are the ideal choice when I want to create a second work in a single day....
My Left Foot
After painting The Graduate, I wanted to keep experimenting with the oil pastels. I've still not really worked out what I'll normally be painting...
Hartlip Church In Oil Pastel
More practice drawing with the oil pastels today. As I've got landscape colours, I thought I'd better have a go at a landscape, this time using...
Logical Right Eye
And so straight on to the right eye. The same techniques as I used for the left eye. Whereas with watercolours and to a lesser extent inktense...
Artistic Left Eye
It seems the best way to learn how to use oil pastels is to watch videos on YouTube. Today I watched Scrooge The Profit describing the rule of...