OIL PASTEL CHALLENGE - September 2010

[oldrockchick]

Hi guys!


Please join me for my challenge this month.
If you are new to the Oil Pastel forum or the medium remember we are a helpful friendly bunch. If you get stuck or need advice or feedback post where you have got to and we'll try to help.

The point is we want to see and enjoy your work.

The Rules:

1) This challenge is open to ANY artist of ANY age working with ANY brand of Oil Pastels. Mixed media artists are welcome as well, as long as one of used medium will be... Oil pastel, of course!

2) Host is posting royalty free images, what you will use as reference for your art work. feel free to modify it any way you want. You can work on just one image, or all of them You can do several versions of the same reference... the choice is solely YOURS!

3) After you finished your art work, take a photo of it and post it on this thread. You may describe your methods and ask for help or comments, if needed. We all are here to help each other.


This month I have chosen a luscious colour as my theme.

Red is a lovely colour for a pending Autumn when leaves turn into beautiful rich reds and coppers.

RED!!

If you are like me they may be the most underused OPs in your collection, or if you use a lot of primaries, do you use different reds?

I'm not going to issue a specific challenge. I just ask that you make the reference your OWN.
Adapt it to make a work of art which reflects YOU personally and your style and aesthetic preferences. All I ask is that you

KEEP IT RED!!


Here are the images for this month:

A traditional famous old RED phone box. This one is outside the Post Office at Caldey Island. Just in front of the monastry on the village green



For lovers of objects and macinery here is Ducatti motorbike taken at Epping Forest. Motorcyclists gather there at a quaint wooden cafe kiosk that sells coffee cakes, and hot soup in winter.



For those that like 'portraiture' or people this is my son, a few years ago at a gig with his red shirt and red guitar under a red light.




And for all you botanists - the obligatory flower:
Almost red - 'bowl of petunias' (as Douglas Adams might describe them)
From my old garden before I moved.
Fell free to make them redder if you wish!



If you would like higher res images please message me an email and I'll send you the originals.

HAVE FUN
and I can't ait to see what you all do with these!

[Pat Isaac]

Thanks, Lin. These are fun pics.

Pat

[halthepainter]

Thanks Lin, may I put "Dr Who" entering the phone booth/tardis?

The Ducati looks interesting also.

[qeenbee]

Hi, I don't know anything about oil pastel but can I join?

[gakinme]

Oh my goodness, so much red, Lin. LOL. But I like red. I'll give it a go. Love the bike at once!!

[gakinme]

Here are two quick sketches.

Holbein oil pastel
65 lbs brown cardstock

[oldrockchick]

Originally Posted by halthepainter

Thanks Lin, may I put "Dr Who" entering the phone booth/tardis?

The Ducati looks interesting also.

Teh idea of the challenge is to use the ref to suit your own style and personlality so if you wish to put Dr Who please do... but I do need to tell you that the TARDIS isn't a phone box, or is it red. It is an old blue Victoriaan police box. These use to stand in the streets so that the PCs could use them to phone a direct link to the station if they needed back up.

anyway can't wait to see what you do with them... (Maybe you could put Dr Who on a Ducati

[oldrockchick]

Originally Posted by qeenbee

Hi, I don't know anything about oil pastel but can I join?

Of course you can.

[oldrockchick]

Sandra - good start with these .. Look forward to seeing what you do with the bik too.

[halthepainter]

Wow Queen Bee, delighted to have you join us.

[Pat Isaac]

Nice sketches, Sandra and Welcome, Queen Bee....

Pat

[robertsloan2]

Or of course for Dr. Who fans, there's putting The Master stepping out of a red phone box instead of a blue police box, seeing as his Chameleon Circuit still works! I think he's been through a few rejuvenations too, so he could be any of several actors in a wild variety of recognizable costumes. That's what I first thought of anyway, though I might just do it for what it is.

Wonderful photos, Lin! I love the bowl of petunias, it would be very easy to do them redder. Big challenge not only doing something well in red but scanning it without having all the reds flatten out to one red-orange because of gamut issues.

Sandra, you did great on both of yours and did the challenge - they look distinctively yours!

[gakinme]

Thank for the comments, Lin, Pat, Robert.

Another sketch of your son, Lin.

Holbein and Neopastel oil pastel
Canson 50 lbs sketchbook 8x11 inch

[oldrockchick]

great colours for the face Sandra - what did you use?

[SunFace]

Great reference photos! And I am a Dr Who fan too ....

Sandra, great starting work!