Forest Harp
This is my second major oil pastel painting. I’ve really taken to these Paul Ruben oil pastels as they’re so creamy and blend-able. I feel I have no choice but to refer to my pastel work as ‘paintings’
This origin of my forest harp painting is actually from late childhood and early teens. I was obsessed with harps. I had this fantasy idea of a natural harp with vines for strings. This is one of many of my drawings back then which survived.
I soon did a second draft in coloured pencils. I did these pencil drawings back in 1995-1996.
Come 2012 and the second wave of painting I got into briefly was painting digitally. I still had this image lingering in mind so a variant of it ended up as a digital painting of mine.
However I had totally forgotten the existence of this digital piece, when I did my most recent painting of this in oil pastels. I plan to do another one in oil paints in future.
Below is a shot I took of an earlier stage of this oil pastel painting. Before adding the tree in the foreground.
And finally…
