Art Journal Wisdom :: Day 4 :: Oil Pastel Love

Welcome To Day Four Of Art Journal Wisdom! Ok.  It’s true.  I madly, truly, 100% love oil pastels. I’ve been using these juicy crayons of oily bliss since high school and they are without a doubt one of my all time favorite supplies to use in my art journal. I’m always surprised when other artists…

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My Oil Pastel Addiction

Detail of page 3 of my new art journal.  Oil pastel and pencil on watercolor paper.   So what I enjoy the most about oil pastels is layering the hell out of them and then coming in and scratching away!  For this piece above I started with the circle pattern only in the background, then…

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Night Vision Journal Flip-Through

Last year the kind folks over at Faber Castell sent me a delicious box of art supplies, In it were a set of my beloved Pitt Pens, a gorgeous set of oil pastels, and these babies: polychromos pastels — a material I never really experimented or played with before.

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