I’ve been to the art group today with Rich’s Parents and I’ve finished off an oil pastel painting I’ve been working on for a few weeks. It’s actually the first oil pastel painting I’ve done, which has made me feel Impressed with oil pastels. This is the very reason why I refer to them as paintings. These Paul Rubens oil pastels blend almost like oil paints and it’s difficult to call them ‘Drawings’.
This is how the day began.
First thing in the morning. I’m lounging around before starting the day and I start creating some music on the Polyend Tracker. Fluff pants decides to jump on my lap and take a nap. I’ve got that new album I’m trying to finish off and I’d like it to still be summer when I release. More about this in another blog post.
Neelix definitely suspects something here. The way he’s looking at that sketch, he looks as if he’s recognized himself.
I’ve been working on this painting for a few weeks (not continuously mind you). It’s kinda ended up like an art group project as I continue it whenever I’m there.
I’ve taken a photo periodically just to show the progress, as you can see below.
Jan (Rich’s mum) is really good at art. She was talking about the stage of a painting where she almost feels like throwing it away because it looks a mess. She has a point because I go through the same stage each time I paint. Just like the image below where I’ve put all the colours in their places. The image doesn’t look the best, it made me feel I had messed it up.
That was until I got the smudge stick/blending stump out. I keep forgetting what they’re called, tortillion?
All you need at this stage is that perseverance, to push past those doubts and keep going.
This is Robin, Rich’s dad, he is an amazing man with a big heart, never afraid to wear his heart on his sleeve and does it with grace. He’s the only one around here who fully gets me and knows what I’m about <3
As you can see I had mostly finished the painting. At this stage I was just doing the final touches here and there.
The day was absolutely beautiful. I think summer is finally here. When I got home I sprayed some Sennelier ‘fixitif’ fixative on the painting.
Just like the lollipop painting I did, I captured a beautiful moment. It was when Rich’s daughter and I were playing pool and Neelix jumped onto the pool table. He went into one of his mischievous moods, that surface would have been ruined had he clawed at it and that’s why he wasn’t allowed on it.
Below is a video I’ve uploaded of the whole ordeal.
I have sketched this very same painting onto a canvas. I want to paint this in oil paints and compare the two. So far I’m happy with how this has come out in oil pastels, in fact I didn’t expect this kind of result. I must say Impressed. I’m curious now as how oil paints compares to these oil pastels.
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