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...
Category: Oil pastels
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...
Oil Pastel Testing
I learned a lesson from my first time using watercolours, markers and inktense pencils. And that lesson was not to attempt a masterpiece first...
Oil Pastels!
It's my birthday and the front page headline on stash news is that I’m going to be trying out oil pastels. The wife bought me a set of 24...