The new year began in drizzling rain and oil pastels. I sketched with the nice medium soft neo pastels by Caran D’ache. The 6 color set I have has no orange, so I used the soft orange from an oil pastel set I got from Sri Lanka (Link to Homerun company). I spotted this plastic [...]
On hot days oil pastels are very nice to use as they get much softer. Depending on the brand it might even be necessary to keep them in the shade or covered. Sennelier oil pastels melt to almost liquid state in summer heat under direct sun. In this sketch I used a cheap standard student [...]
If you like to go “Plein Air light” oilpastels are the medium of choice. This little colour study of the autumn forest was done on a piece of paper with a thick cover of oil paint on it. I liked to use this type of coloured support because there will be no “white spots” peaking [...]
Weblog about drawing trees, sketching in forests by Martin Stankewitz,Edition Handdruck,Maulbronn
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Reverend William Gilpin
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