Roni with oil-pastels

[Roni]

Discovered oil-pastels by "accident" 4 years ago and found I can draw with them. At times.
Easy to handle while you're sitting with your drink to some exquisitely depressive music, when all of a sudden you feel the need to express your misery.
They are fast, these oil-pastels, (and smooth), that's what I like about them.

Usually I spontaneously take my sketchbook (ca 12 x 16 inches), put it on my lap, start immediately without thinking much and go about it for between 30-80mins. Most times, the result is below poor, of course, (though nevertheless neccessary to Do it).
But now-and-then, the final piece is exactly what I want from my work to express my inner self.

Here's one I like:

There were only 4 or 5 times, when I actually planned, what I would do before starting.
And just One of them had a bigger format.
Here it is:

Sorry for the poor picture-quality. Using old i-phone-4 to photograph while drawing (and the light is like neon in my room). May change this habit of sloppyness at documenting some day.

 

[snoball]

Very interesting how you manage to display the image in so many different colors and lines.

 

[Roni]

Another I like much:

[the right part - of course - is a detail]

 

[snoball]

Nice Roni, the image of the face is almost hidden.

 

[Artyczar]

I love seeing it in the first two, where you can see you holding it up to demonstrate the scale. It's really good. I too prefer the oil pastels to the chalk ones. They remind me a little bit like holding of crayon as a child. This pieces has a child-like, expressionistic vibe, with so much movement. It's honest and seemed to have been formed organically. I love it.

 

[Roni]

one of my best:

 

[Artyczar]

Wow, that's a great one! I love getting to know your style. It's very distinct, which is a good thing. Have you ever showed your work?

 

[Roni]

Thank you, sweetheart. It's uplifting to hear such encouraging words. I've put some pictures on my fb-account.

On my style - there's but One particularly influencial artist on my work:
At age 19 I've been to a SCHIELE-exhibition. That blew me. Like a sudden epiphany.
I immediately STOPPED trying tho draw the human anatomy true to nature and adopted those crippled and crackled lines to express inner feelings rather than drawing bodies.

 

[Artyczar]

It's so amazing when we look at others' art--it's a kind of collective dialog of all of art history between us, giving us all more and more permission to be ourselves and inspire one another. I know what you mean about seeing someone's work and it having such an impact on the way we work and communicate through art making. I feel like I have these realizations over and over again when I look at all kinds of art. It reinforces what it is I'm am doing and puts me in a place where I can be true to my own voice, especially if I go off track a little and doubt myself for those sticky moments. Thanks for inspiring me again.

 

[snoball]

Great Roni, shows a lot of angst, in the pose, the lines, everything.

 

[ntl]

I like those!

 

[Roni]

This one is not really great work technically, yes.
[made Nov 2016, just when I had discovered oil-pastels]
Only posting it tonight, because I'm listening to the song that played when I made it. [and included a line of the lyrics]
Radiohead: "How To Disappear Completely"

 

[Roni]

Here's one from early this year. Liked it when I did it.
Still very okay with the original, but couldn't make this pic quite fine, as my photoshop-skills are questionable.

One sad thing about it is, that it's a "perfect" example of what I'd try to avoid, as I stated in musket's "Night-Moths"-thread: having lines in obvious connection.

Alas, it's oil-crayons and you can't really correct those.
So I have to live with it. Still like it though.

 

[Katie]

Here's one from early this year. Liked it when I did it.
Still very okay with the original, but couldn't make this pic quite fine, as my photoshop-skills are questionable.

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One sad thing about it is, that it's a "perfect" example of what I'd try to avoid, as I stated in musket's "Night-Moths"-thread: having lines in obvious connection.

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Alas, it's oil-crayons and you can't really correct those.
So I have to live with it. Still like it though.

Oil pastels ain't easy imho and so I think this is very well done.

 

[Artyczar]

Me too, I really love how this one turned out Roni. It's a winner in my book. I can't see what you see within these circles. I see it to be a perfect piece.

 

[Roni]

I really love how this one turned out Roni. It's a winner in my book.

Thank you, and don't get me wrong: I DO like it a lot.
Otherwise I wouldn't have posted it.
It's just that there are so many of those - minor - flaws, that we've just talked about in the "Moth-thread".

I can't see what you see within these circles.

It's what musket had said about the wing of his moth being in line with the rain and what I said there in my own post:
"perfect matching or touching of two lines or edges from different objects drives me crazy"

Maybe this illustrates it better than the marks in my above example:

Again: Don't misunderstand this as a dismissing of my drawing.
I'm proud of it (all in all), really, but can't deny that everytime I look at it, I wish I could move those borders just a tiny little bit to not match so very close.

 

[Artyczar]

I see what you mean. I know you're not dismissing it. A viewer may not see this though. Perhaps only you, the artist, would notice.

 

[Roni]

 

[Hermes2020]

Roni, I can hear Leonard Cohen sing when I look at your drawings.

 

[snoball]

These are fascinating Roni. The first one makes me wonder what's going on in your mind.