Very productive day! I wrote an article for Rob's Art Lessons and another one for Explore Oil Pastels with Robert Sloan. The first one is on drawing cats (or any animal you love), the second on setting up a still life. I still had the objects sitting around after taking the still life photos so I sketched them from life with Cray Pas Specialist ( Read more... )

Today I got a happy surprise - three new sets of oil pastels in a new brand I'd never heard of. So I tested them and charted their colors, getting ready to review them on my Oil Pastels site. They're a fun brand. One of the boxes, the Homerun PAS 47 color set claims excellent lightfastness, the other two don't mention it so I have my doubts.


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Mixing Greens is the latest article on Explore Oil Pastels with Robert Sloan. It was a fun page to create, first new article I've done since I took Johannes Vloothuis' course and that opened my eyes to so much about mixing greens!

Now let's test that link and edit the post if I got it or the coding wrong!

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