Oil pastel experiments – Swirls

Saturday I felt like doodling and since the Drawing Lab Challenge I had missed involved doing exactly that, I did some. I grabbed my oil pastels, a piece of watercolour paper and just drew some swirls. No plan, no design beyond the idea that I’d like to play with some graduated colour (I followed the […]

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More experiments – Five centimetre paintings

Frozen rivulets, acrylic on cartridge, approx. 50 x 50 mm. Got a chance to play with some paint again today (I should have been doing my taxes, but KJ wouldn’t go to bed, so we ended up in the backyard painting together). This is a followup experiment from my One centimetre paintings. These ones are […]

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Creative Everyday

I’ve joined a new challenge. This should be no surprise to anyone since I’ve managed to drown myself in the things in order to keep myself on the art track. But this one is a good laidback approach that might just keep me doing something everyday.  And this will be followed by the slightly more […]

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Oil pastel experiments

I’m learning! Remember this from yesterday? One of my one centimetre paintings. Well, they were designed to be inspiration points, so since I had time to paint today I took this one and turned it into this: Oil pastel on watercolour paper I finally got out my oil pastels to play. I laid down the […]

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Painting experiments

I did some experimenting with paint today. Nine One Centimetre Paintings, Acrylic on paper, approx. 9 x 10 x 10 mm. I think they are pretty groovy and have ideas what to do with them. I really like the subtle blending of colours. I’m certainly going to continue my experiments in this area. Nutty(experimenting is […]

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