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Well, I’m afraid I haven’t done much with oil pastels. I would go to the forum and find someone who used oil pastels regularly. The...

It is also one of my favourite effects with oil paint. I get it by scumbling with a flat brush or a palette knife over roughly textured...

That's a lovely little painting. I particularly like the top right blue area and the way it works next to those broken yellow and white...

Both are 11 x 14 inches .. oil on paper .. alla prima .. painted last week .... Hi Donna ..

About 5 1/2" x 6 1/2", pen and Inktense in XL Mixed Media Sketchbook. This one was a challenge for me. I haven't done a lot of figure...

Some nice cliffs on the Swedish west coast I painted a couple of years ago. I painted the weather better than it was in the reference...

Welcome to Creative Spark. I would love to see how you augment your music with art.

Hello everyone. I'm writing from the city of Denver in Colorado, USA. I'm an artist but mainly in the areas of music and the...

André, don't sweat it. One would naturally assume that a forum participant would be here to discuss art. I only knew b/c his handful of...

Well, it seems I got tricked by his post!

I'm probably dense, but could you please clarify your question? From what you say, I understand that you are thinking of painting an oil...

Beautiful painting, I'm not fond of cropping, you lose your line of vision and sweet spot as snowball says.

Not. When you crop it, you lose the "sweet spot" for the swan. Love the painting. ❤️

I just finished a quick 20 x 20-inch acrylic of an impressive cliff. Since I partly grew up on the Swedish West Coast, I love views and...

Just studying shadows with this fine specimen from the grocery store. He didn't want to share the space with anyone else. 6x6 pastels...