Sub in leather

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Here is a new picture from my sketch book.

This has been done in mixed media- coloured pens, enhanced with acrylic.

I like the way this has come out.

Until next time

Adieu

Lyre

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Here is a new drawing on a classical theme.

This is mixed media again. It's an ink drawing with white pastel highlights.

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Cutter's offer

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This is a photoshop reworking of one of my naughtier Elfquest pictures,

 which- just- conforms to my self-imposed censorship rules.

The original was in coloured pencil.

I've done so much work to this that I am treating it as a completely new version and can justify signing it with this year's date.

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Oil pastels

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I have blogged previously about my first attempt at using oil pastels.

I have now had another go (using the same found image as the first time)

I think my first attempt was a bit heavy handed and , this time, I tried to use less of the medium.

I also tried working light to dark which helped reduce inadvertent colour transfer.

All in all, I think it came out better.

Neither of the pictures fully captures the subject ( I've never been a portrait artist), but this one is much closer.

I have established that one can use fixative on oil pastels, but ( as with charcoal and other pastels) they need either be framed, or stored carefully with cover sheets, as the medium remains active.

I think, all in all, that I can revise my assessment of oil pastels to ' not impossible'....

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Raven cover

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Here is the cover design for Elfsex 3.

This is version one: on artboard with coloured pens.

This is version 2- after a bit of photoshopping.

 I have applied a little censorship to both versions for this blog.

until next time

Adieu

New Medium

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Every now and again my friends give me presents of art materials.

Often these are things I use all the time, such as oil paints, art board, acrylic paints.

But sometimes they are things I have never used, or have used once and not got the hang of, or just found too tricky, impermanent, or simply too annoying.

Pastels fall into this latter category. The colours in a set are never the most useful and 'chalk' pastels are too dusty to  retain any drawn effect if left in a portfolio- even after several coats of fixative.

I also dislike their blocky nature, which makes any detail extremely difficult to achieve.

As a consequence, I have hardly ever used them in my work.

Nor, till now, had I tried to work in oil pastels.

I discovered a box of these when tidying the studio- I know not whence they came, but I know I didn't buy them.

I did, however, decided to give them a go.

This is the result.

It is true that they are blendable, but that blendablity if countered by their habit of catching a little bit of a neighbouring colour and carrying it into the bit you are working on willy nilly.

It was only by creating points with a craft knife that I was able to achieve any of the eye mouth and nose detail, and even then, they are nowhere near what I can do with a pencil.

The result is, I think, reasonable for a first go and I've learnt quite a lot about the limitations of the medium.

I may try again in the future and see if I can get a better result.

I shall also have to do some research as to how to preserve any work I do. Does fixative work on oil pastel? Do I just store it with a cover sheet and hope?

Until next time

Adieu

New drawing

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Here is a new drawing from my sketch book.

Once again, my ball-jointed dolls, Angelo and Yoshi are modelling for me...

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Blue Boy in Peril 3

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Here is the last version of this computer art.

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Resting in the cloister

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Here is a new piece of computer art I have recently completed.

I have been experimenting with masks and effects and am quite pleased with how this has come out.

Until next time

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