Colored Pencil

A little bit of a different view on things :)  

Sunflowers

          I know I said that I would be posting pictures of my colored pencil drawings, but here is what happened...my first drawing I did was of my horse.  As far as the horse itself, I think it looks pretty good if I do say so myself, but the actual colors of it, I had a little trouble with...the highlights and the dark places just don't quite look right.  Then I drew a ballet dancer.  I really enjoyed drawing this one!  But when I was finished, I realized one of the legs was too short (I guess I should have been stepping back and looking at my drawing like a good artist would haha).  And then I drew one more picture, but haven't gotten around to finishing it.  All in all, I feel a little bit ashamed of my colored pencil skills....I guess I will have to practice more.  To make up for the lack of colored pencil drawings, I will post (yet another) oil pastel--because, after all, it is one of my favorite mediums :)

I'm sorry I don't have a very good overhead picture, but I was having trouble with shadows and light....Anywhoo, I think one of my favorite parts when doing this, was peeling off the tape when i was done, to see what it would look like! I wanted to do something a bit different, and I remembered one my oil pastels of mountains in an earlier post, with a line down the center, so I decided to do a bit of a variation on that.  Tell me what ya think of the broken-up-ness of the picture!  I really wasn't certain how it would look when I was done...still deciding what I think of it, haha! 

Colored Pencils

I just bought 12 colored pencils for $2.  Seemed like a pretty good price to me, plus they are Crayola.
I used to draw with colored pencils all the time, but I didn't bring them with me to college, and I miss drawing with them.  They are a lot of fun to use, and they blend nicely if you get a good brand of pencil.  You don't need too many colors either since they blend so well.  I'm super excited about this and can't wait to get coloring!!  I'll try and remember to post a colored pencil picture.

Happy Friday the 13th!

Art Show

Last week I submitted four oil pastels into an art show where the theme was "light"(I might have even written a post about it awhile ago...).  The art show was an immense amount of fun, but I was so nervous because I had to stand in front of people and give a brief little summary of each painting i.e. how I was inspired, or how it had to do with light.  Even though all the people I was presenting my work to were good friends, my hands still shook really hard and it was hard to hold my pieces still, haha.  Anyhow, two of the the pieces are the last two oil pastels that I posted on my blog (the water one and the person with their hands behind their head).  Here are the other two:

These are clouds behind a tree line, and the sunshine is coming up through the clouds 

This is a hand turning on a light....nuff said.  

Well, those are the oil pastels that I submitted to the art show. I had a lot of fun drawing them, especially the really vibrant colorful ones.  I'm glad I was able to overcome being un-inspired at first, when it came to the theme, and kudos to all the other artists and performers at the show! There were some really talented people there!  Can't wait for next year's show!