Year: 2024
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oil pastel sweat bee
I painted this one on sanded paper, the much admired pastelmat type, and found it desperately unintuitive. The grippy surface could be nice, but it’s completely unabsorbant, and i found myself unable to layer the way I’m used to on rag papers, or honestly even on wood. that said, you really can blend infinitely on…
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macro fishbowl asters
i have been having a lot of fun making some intentionally messy photos with clip-on macro lenses on my cellphone camera, and trying more and more to get the blown out, bokeh’d background to be a more intentional element. this one feels like it’s showing me some potential!
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Moss and grasses
Loved this hike and felt immensely inspired the whole time and yet still wrestled with all the green in the photos. I never understood how people could say green was hard to deal with until I tried to post process digital photos.
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mixed media test: failed haha
i did a quick watercolour (first) and gave it a coat of fixative so i could try out layering oil pastels on top for a mixed media look (second), but I’ve hit a few challenges: so likely I’ll toss this now and move on, but it has taught me a fair amount of interesting technical…
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WIP Knight in Oil Pastel
this is the biggest thing I’ve painted yet with the oil pastels; gonna be working in it for a while i was looking at digital paintings from 2022, and thinking about the method I had started using back then of having a mark making stage and a blending stage as two separate things; and the…
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Your Cellphone Camera’s Digital Processing Settings and You
I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do to my photos, and I am glad about software I found that lets me control it and opt in and out.
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What Format You Might Want To Save Digital Photos In
What format do you recommend I save photographs in? Like raw or jpeg? I don’t know the difference.
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oil pastel dog portrait!
finished this piece of a much missed lucky boy; oil pastel on canson mi-tientes paper.
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oil pastel dog portrait in progress
working on canson mi-tientes paper, which really let’s the pastel slide around despite the rougher side’s surface texture.