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  • Pastel Portrait Practice

    Pastel Portrait Practice

    It’s been a few days and I’m still playing with the oil pastels. Yes, they’re crayola. I’m doing these after taking the kiddo to school and before I have to start working.

    Today, I used a reference from Pinterest.

    The proportions are wrong – it’s a little long in the face. Still, it’s a good looking face.

    This background color worked nicely with the colors I chose, so I like that too!

    The morning light outside in the patio is so nice. It’s the perfect time to get outside and think about something as simple as colored lines.

    Listening to the early birds chirping around.

    One day, I’d like to draw some trees at the neighborhood park. Writing that down so I actually try to get to that…

    For now, it’s time to go to work.

  • Tiny Bright Portraits in Oil Pastel

    Tiny Bright Portraits in Oil Pastel

    As promised, I worked on some new portraits. These are done in oil pastel and are on small craft paper, 4″ x 6″. Oh, and I also used a black grease pencil. They took about 10 minutes each. There were others that I made but these were the nicest of them.

    It’s fun to mess with these faces so quickly! Oil pastels are super fun on bright paper.

    I still need to work on getting the “likeness” of my portraits correct though. I like the limited palette of the green portrait, but my favorite so far is the red. Even though the right side of her face slid outwards. They look nothing like the reference photos, but I do really like the shading.

    Thanks for looking!

  • My Latest Goal: Do More Portrait Art (again)

    My Latest Goal: Do More Portrait Art (again)

    So I need to make more stuff. Lol. Story of my life. Coming out of yet another rut. Or I could characterize it as a trough before a great crest. Right, isn’t that more of a growth mindset? So, I’m here to say, I’ll be making more portraits.

    Here is the most recent example from my sketchbook. I posted the progress video on:

    Instagram

    TikTok

    @m0sslike

    #shelleyduvall #ink #portrait #inkdrawing #art

    โ™ฌ Stuck In The Middle – Tai Verdes

    This rough portrait took me about 25 minutes. From pencil sketch all the way til I ruined it with extra ink. Luckily I took photos and ended the videos before that happened.

    Sometimes, I’ll be grabbing inspiration for future portraits from the Sktchy / Museum app as usual. In that app, a ton of people post their images. They hope someone will use that image for portrait practice! I love the images that are clear with high contrast!

    I think I’ll also be doing celebrity portraits. I hate doing this because I don’t have specific rights to the photos I use as reference. BUT, in the past, using a popular celebrity image drives up the likes & follows. Comment if you’d like to see any of your favorite celebrities painted! ๐Ÿ–ค

    I enjoy making portraits. I always think, people, pets, & plants. So much character and observation.

    If you’ve made it this far in my post – I’m also still open to practice with your photos (pets are cool too)! Email me @ Gemma@mosslike.com ๐Ÿ–ค If I like the photo you send me, I’ll do a free practice portrait of it. Thanks for reading!