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Apple Tree, oil pastel – a painting WIP diary
I thought you might enjoy seeing how Apple Tree was developed as an oil pastel painting. First, an underpainting was done using acrylic white and ultramarine paints. Limiting to one color to concentrate on only forms and values of the … Continue reading
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Tagged apple tree, Oil Pastel, painting, pastel
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Three Studies of Underpainting Color Choices
There are a number of underpainting techniques that I enjoy using with my oil pastel paintings: watercolor or soft pastel washes (washed with either water or alcohol), and gouache – acrylic – oil thinned paint. Each offer a different result … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic, clouds, gouache, landscape, oil pastels, paintings, sky, soft pastels, underpainting, watercolor
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Forest Secret 1 and 2, oil pastels
Yesterday I was fooling around with creating a snow-scene painting using a straight-edge razor blade. The fun was how quickly you can completely change a scene by scraping away the oil pastels, revealing new patterns that can give way to … Continue reading
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Tagged oil pastels, pastel paper, razor blade, sky, trees, water
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Experiment, Pine Needles and Pine Cones – oil pastel
If I don’t try new techniques I’ll never know how far I can push oil pastels. So yesterday and today I’ve been playing with a complex scene (pine needles, pine cones and snow) to see the effects I can get with scraping … Continue reading
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Underpainting with Acrylic Paints for an Oil Pastel Painting
Several folks have asked about the technique I use to do a underpainting with acrylics for an oil pastel painting, here is my process. I don’t always use underpaintings with my paintings, but if I do here are some several reasons: … Continue reading
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Tagged acrylic, black and white, color, Oil Pastel, painting, underpainting
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Oil Pastel Experiment – wonder how far I can push it?
The word for this weeks word challenge was ‘Purple’ I thought, okay I can do this in between my other painting projects. The image shows the backsides of cosmos on a 5×7 watercolor paper 140#. Watercolor paper was used because I needed … Continue reading
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Paint What You See, Not What You Think is There
Is this a difficult concept to master, or what? Well I just learned once again why it sounds so easy but can sometimes be so difficult to do. There’s a lot written and taught about this concept dealing with colors, … Continue reading
Underpainting with Soft Pastel and an Alcohol Wash
Oil pastels (OPs) are my main painting medium, but there are times when I want to block in shapes and colors as a foundation to the painting before I start layering in OPs. So I will do what’s called a … Continue reading
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Tagged oil pastels, painting, pastels, soft pastels, surface, underpainting, wash
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My Oil Pastel Tools for Painting
Painting tools used for oil pastels (OPs) come in a variety of forms, sometimes unconventional, it’s a personal preference of the artist. There are a wide variety of tools that OP artists use like their fingers, paper tortilliums, or at times paint … Continue reading
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Oil Pastels by Mary 