Some of the Pastels While I Was in South Carolina
The Carolinas Bigotting 2026. Oil pastel on paper, 9 x 12"
I’ve been back for a few days after visiting my mother in South Carolina. We went to my sister’s house and pet sit her dog for a week while she was away on her own family errand. Like my mother, my sister is an organized, ordered, clean house person. There would be no painting attempted in her abode. So I decided to substitute three pastels a day for my usual three painting goal. Even with the smaller paper size, it wasn’t so easy with time spent visiting Mom, cooking meals, walking the dog, and keeping an impeccably clean house . Still, I managed all three a day for six days straight. It was the long travel days I had to take off. Here are ten of the eighteen. I’m itching to show the paintings made since I got back.
Summer is so much more busy than the winter. I can see the foliage changing color, and feel the night nip in the air. We’re losing evening light. I have a feeling this winter is going to be very productive.
All pastels are oil on 9 x 12" paper.
Birdsy
Circus Design
Two Fleas and Dragons
Humans and Their Shell
Landsharks
Parasites! Lunch!
Pyramid Laborer With Canopic Jar Tattoo
Deep Spacey
Strumpet
Looks as if you had fun and kept yourself busy. How many did you paint?. May I ask the brand of oil pastels you used?
Did it make fun to use the oil pastels or was it just a pathetic substitute of oilpaint?
By the way, you should be able to use them in the same way as oil paint but I do find them quiet attractive this way and it definitely you.
For some reason these look so much happier. A lighter topic?
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I made 18 (five days), and two days of travel, means I lost two days. Pentel (very affordable) and some Sennelier (very NOT affordable).
I enjoy making pastels. The Sennelier are my favorite, and I would have “painted” into the pastels if I my hostesses’ house would have allowed it. (She’s too neat!) So, I used them like crayons, which is fine by me. A different style and, like you said, a “happier” look. But I was itchin’ to get back to painting, as my next post will tell.
Thank you!
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You mean one day lost. Three paintings a dayakes (3*5) 15 + 3 (another day) = 18 and you should have 21...
I have Sennelier as well, but will order others I heard about to try out. I still have to finish one with Panda (Talens) with the paletknife on canvas... which is a crime.
You can always take a break from oil painting if the smell is too much again and grab the oil pastels and use them like crayons.
Oh come on, how much dirt can one create while working with oil pastels 😉
Happy painting!
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Oops. I meant 15 pastels.
The Pentel are dirt cheap, and work like acrylic pastels. The Sennelier are soooo much more juicy:)
And I know... I have alpha sister issues. But I’m back in my world now, so I don’t have to behave.
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Thank you very much!