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!