Here’s #12, getting close to my goal of 15 studies of rocks and boulders.
Brown River Rocks is an oil pastel (5×7) painted on beige Mi-Teintes pastel paper using mainly Senneliers brand of OPs. Because it’s a small painting clay shapers were used to move the paint around the surface.
Brown River Rocks
Reference image was from Jim Pierce with pmp.
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Oil Pastels by Mary 
Love reflections Mary!
Beautiful painting❤️
Thanks Violet!
Love the broken up pieces here. It’s different from your other studies but equally lovely. Love the values and textures mixed together for a perfect balance.
Thanks Eva- portraits are such a change for my usual subjects, but most enjoyable. Thanks for noticing the values and textures, I think being able to work charcoal like this is what I find so fascinating about the medium.
As usual, you’ve really nailed the water here. It looks beautiful… a really inviting setting!
Thanks Steven!
The reflections are glorious!
Thank you Elena!
I like the different shapes in this composition of rocks and water. …and most of the rocks are blue and most of the water red rust and it reads beautifully! Good study, Mary.
Thank you Leslie – really appreciate!
Love this one, especially the water flowing around the boulders.
Thanks very much – the water was a lot of fun getting those rust colors to flow properly. Have a great weekend.
Love your rocks! I’ve just discovered OPs & your blog. Thanks so much for sharing your art work. It is wonderful to see what you’ve accomplished in oil pastels. C. V. in TN
Thank you for visiting C.V.! Appreciate your kind comments.
Lovely colours 🙂
Thanks Jo!
Mary,
Another beautiful work. Congratulations!
My best to you
john
Thank you John for your kind words of encouragement!
Most impressed with your work here. The water is absolutely shimmering. Rocks very good and I also like the touch of greenery on the lower left fading back into the browns plants there. This is what really gives it the contrast it needs as a whole in my opinion. But again, just my untrained eye here.
Thank you A! Untrained or trained, you nailed it – the painting was done w/o the greenery and leaving it for a time, coming back it screamed relief so the greenery was added.
Marvellous shapes and colour Mary. Your rocks are filled with interest.Lovely painting.
What a great surprise Don, so happy to see you again. Thank you for your generous comment!
This is lovely.
Thank you ladyfi!
Just like the rocks in the river near where I now live….you can hop across the water on them…You’ve rendered the textures in such a realistic way, that just like my river rocks, you can’t be sure which ones are the slippery ones and which ones are safe to jump upon….very nice!
Hi Cynthia, thank you so much for your compliment. Oh I remember the flush rivers of Maine, with some great rocks – so beautifully set down by nature. Perhaps a poem will develop about slippery rocks ~ just a little thought.
The colours and textures are incredible Mary! Water must be so hard to get right.
Hi Madhu, thank you so much – appreciate it! Interesting it took some time but I’ve learned how to manipulate water with oil pastels. For me the rocks are harder – not always easy to get proper beige color of rocks w/OPs. You can blend oil pastels together, but the results aren’t anywhere near as what can be achieved with acrylics or oil paints.
Like rocks have in nature, you have created a variety of textures. Cheers to your work!
Thank you very much Frank – slightly blurry photograph, but I needed to move on. So thanks for mentioning the textures.
Oh this is beautiful Mary! Love the shimering effect. Really nicely done.
Thank you so much Jess!