selfportrait

selfprotrait Originally uploaded by dibujandoarte

once more, me facing a mirror, this time oil pastels and turpentine to blend at hand... (I should use cleaner colours but i can't help mixing and using dirty ones, haha). I was too tired when i did it so now i realized my eyes are in a different line but the idea was to also not add too much details. i tried to make it using shapes and not using lines i mean rather pictorial than drawing

life sketch in oil

life sketch in oil
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a 20 minutes sketch in oil and turpentine, on paper with a previous layer of gesso. no details, just trying to quickly capture shapes and masses of lights and shadows.

life sketch

life sketch
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i made this quick sketch this afternoon while one one of the students was drawing in front of her easel.

still life sketch oil pastel

still life sketch oil pastel
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another still life, first i sketched with grey and black oil pastel. on topd i added some colors, then blended with turpentine and continued adding more colors + blackand white or some complementary for the shadows. took me about an hour to make it (35x50 cm approx)

quick works of planes, colours and shapes

i'm attending an 8-weeks-summer course at a museum, which has a wonderful Andaluz garden (as a garden in Andalucía - Spain). the teacher makes us see the shapes, the contrasts, the colours, without making details which is too difficult for me, because I always tend to go till the most tiny detail if I can. working with watercolurs in the last years has helped me in that, though in this case, these two works i did this mornig, i used oil pastels to make some shapes then blurred it with turpentine and a strong brush and kept on adding more oil pastel, tried to blend it in some places and not in others.