Recently I've started to combine them with watercolors. The oil pastels serve to provide a resist and the watercolors can fill in between oily areas easily. I like some of the patterns that can be created too.
This first one is a dark (scary according to Karen) piece. Still I've tentatively called it Forgiveness. Don't know why.
Next up is a companion piece to Marcel Duchamp's Chin that I did a while back. This doesn't have the nuance of the other yet but I'm working on that. Working title Duchamp's Face.
Next up is the piece with watercolor. It's called Ant's View. The watercolor is much of the blue. The crooked nature of the piece is intentional. I'm not sure what I'll do with the area around the frame.
Lastly we've got a portrait of a young sort of goth woman. Titled Suzy because I was typing this during a Randy Newman song in which Suzy is a character.
Hope you enjoy them. Comments, suggestions, criticism are encouraged.
1 comment:
I do relate to your style. The quick putting down of line and color. The working on paper reminds me of a quality I am loosing now that I am doing so much directly on the computer (with paint program and drawing with the mouse - yeah, the mouse.) I like doing so. But for years I filled sketch journals with markers and colors, and the quality of your work here refuels some of that need. We'll see. I am 3 score and 10 years old, hopefully a ways to go. I am looking forward. I particularly like the two face portraits here.
Ralph
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