A journal of my art.
Oil Pastel: Autumn Fields - Work in Progress/In Arbeit
Oil pastels on oil painting paper
Ölpastell auf Ölmalpapier
I feel quite clueless about doing landscapes in oil pastels. That's why I've now started this painting from a demo (which was originally done in gouache and soft pastels). I'm not quite sure whether I've really understood the concept of layering. Also I find it really difficult not to just blend everything in but let the different kinds of pastel marks "speak".
To start with I wanted to do an oil pastel/turp underpainting. So I blocked in the colours for the sky (light blue and jeans blue, some white near the horizon) and the fields (golden ochre).
For the second step I blended everything with turpentine. However I found the wash way too dark and thus tried to remove as much of the dissolved colour as possible with plenty of paper towels.
After that I started layering the colours for the sky.
Now, this is what happened after I had stopped wondering what I was supposed to do. I grabbed my palette knife and started to use it for blending and applying more colour.
(click pictures to enlarge) work in progress / in Arbeit
posted by Birte | 3:20 PM
2 Comments:
I am so glad that you are showing your WIPs ... I have only done one oil pastel and felt a bit at a loss. Maybe watching you work will give me the 'oomph' to try some more! Thank you for sharing your method.
oh, thanks, lesly,
I'm not sure that there's already something like "my method", though. Actually, me too, I still feel a bit at a loss. I'm still trying to find out the technical basics and which of them will work for me. So what I'm doing here is just a bit of trial and error. However, I'm glad you're enjoying it and finding it useful.
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