Springtime in Los Angeles
Happy first day of spring! It has actually been chilly; chilly for Los Angeles; but the flowers are peaking.
It is also very green.
I love how on cloudy days the colors look extra bright; like the flowers have their own sun inside them.
Even the pastries looks extra colorful!
And that delicious meal my roomate made last night.
But mostly the flowers
Hello @twirble! Thank you for subscribing to my blog, I will also subscribe to yours. I see that you have a very peculiar art, individual. What kind of graphics technique do you use, and what do you like most?
Nice to meet you.`Above is photos taken on my phone with the "retrocamera" app on android. I love the yellow camera. My other art is colored pencil, oil pastel, and acrylic moslty; but last week I started doing digital drawings on "Dada" using their fun and simple online tools. I
An interesting coincidence. I recently tried an oil pastels and I really enjoyed. You can give references to your work in this technique, I would be very interested to see them. And maybe you will give advice on how to work with oil pastels.
Here is one that is currently for sale
Usually I work out the composition with colored pencil, and my pieces have different mixtures of both. This one is mostly oil pastel. I like to work from darker to lighter colors, often starting with brown or red for flesh tones; this one is on orange paper so that step is not necessary. You really have to finesse the use of complimenary colors as they can get muddy; a problem you do not have with colors that dry.
On the contrary, I liked the oil pastel, in which the color was preserved! In contrast to watercolors or oil painting, in which it is easy to lose color.
I like how the oil pastel is mixed right on the picture and how one color is superimposed on the other. But I noticed that the Russian pastel is not so soft, and it can not be confused. Pastels of foreign origin have much better quality.
I drew oil pastels in Greece. It was very hot, 35-37 degrees Celsius. Pastel melted right in the picture, it was very comfortable to work with.
Tell me, please, are you preparing a paper for drawing with oil pastel? I noticed that over time, at the edges of the picture, where there are no pastels, there are oil stains.
Perhaps I should, but I usually just use good high quality paper and sacrifice the corners to the frame.
Sennilier is the best brand I have used so far. Holbein is ok, but not really worth the high price tag . I like the collors, but not the best for layering complimentary colors.
Is this paper specially made for oil pastels? Did not meet with us this.
I know that some draw oil pastel on construction sandpaper, I do not know how to correctly translate the name, it is covered with small metal chips.
I usually use pastel paper. Not sure about the kind you speak of but I have not done much research on papers in a while.
absolutely beautiful stuff. We are so spoiled here. I was a little bummed today when I saw the clouds roll in and the rain on the way but then I looked at the rest of country lol. Thanks for posting a bit of our shared paradise.
The rain will just make the flowers blooming brighter:)
strait seasons replacement, make beautiful flower blooms blossom in at every place