Course work: Continued exploration of my colored media. Oil pastels produce nice, strong colors, though they tend to look a bit like children’s crayons. Colors can be blended fairly well, either by hatching and rubbing, or by rubbing one color directly into another. On my color-bar test, it was obvious that the colors were being dragged across from one bar to another, leaving more examples of neutrals than of two- color mixing. Mixing complements produces usable neutrals. Some tests were made on a separate card using odorless paint thinner: this blended the colors nicely, and produced good mixtures. Two pastels were tested following being directly dipped into the thinner…one went on smoothly, the other streakily, from which I conclude that extensive further testing would be required were I to choose to employ them in this manner. After drying, the card was pasted into the sketchbook. The page opposite the oil pastel page was left blank so that I can see how strong the tendency is for the colors to rub off in sketchbook use.
Reading:
Deborah Haynes Art Lessons
Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 2003
Pp 51-83
Personal Sketchbook work: Three views of a lemon, and a sketch of the ancient nail that appears somewhere in each of my sketchbooks.
Total time: 1 hr 12 min
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