Thursday, February 25, 2010

Mukwonago River, Oil Pastel


A beautiful sunny day. I really like painting the outdoors. I like being outdoors. A lot of times when I first start, I have a hard time getting started. So then I give myself permission to make a very bad, the absolute worse painting because everything I do is just practice. I am where I am. And then I think, it's not so bad.

Today I was using mostly Sennelier's iridescent oil pastels. They're very soft & somewhat sticky so you need leave the paper on. My other oil pastels are mostly different grades of cray pas which are more waxy & hard. You can use the cray pas to scratch into the senneliers.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Oil Pastel of Horse Eating


Very nice sunny day today. People at the ranch were very nice and the horses were friendly.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Oil Pastel Sketch of Pius V Church in Mukwonago from Thursday


Back to being cloudy. Took 3 tries to get this. This is a catholic church that still says mass in latin.