Tag: oil pastels

  • 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!