More oil pastel

 

 

 

Tree and cloud studies - oil pastel

Since I really don't consider myself a painter I thought I'd try the tree challenge with a medium closer to drawing.

I've been having a box with oil pastels in a drawer for as long as I can remember. It's a medium I've never been comfortable with but I've kept them because I like Italian artist Lorenzo Mattotti so much. Now I thought maybe the scale had something to do with why I've had problems so I made these drawings quite large. 50 x 70 cm and thereabout.

Now I find it very inspiring and the drawing with color method fits the task quite good.

I expanded the tree challenge to include clouds which have a similar bubbly, broccoli-like visual texture.

More tree studies

Here's some more tree studies. Acrylic on board - approx. 10 x 15 cm.

Tree studies

Spent some time this summer studying trees. I adore the background paintings in Miyazaki's movies and I wanted it to look like that. Hard task and I didn't really succeed but my attempts went from quite crappy to at least semi-ok so - the tree-challenge continues...

Ps. I left the crappy ones out when I picked the examples below.