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A new project has been announced in the WetCanvas! project system!
Title: 100 Stones
Project Leader: robertsloan2
Relative Difficulty: Irrelevant
Type Restrictions: Drawing
Medium: Oil pastel
Subject: Still Life
Days open for signups: Always
Maximum participants allowed: UnlimitedDescription:
Using oil pastels, together we’ll create 100 different studies — sketches, paintings, drawings — of stones from life. One stone per piece. A small pebble has within it the shapes and structures of a mountain. You can add one or as many as you want, the project will close when we have 100 stones created by everyone in it.Clear polished stones, crystals and even carved stones are all right, but it should be a stone and done from life rather than from a photo or imagination. Bits of pottery, twigs, metal and plastic don’t count as stones. All entries must be done in oil pastels, though you can use techniques that combine them with other supplies like a watercolor underpainting or oil based colored pencils in details. Any surface is okay — even painting one on a rock!
Additional Information:
For more information on the project: Click here!
Remember, in order to help keep the discussions on projects organized, you should post your questions, suggestions, and comments on submitted work here in this thread. By doing this, we allow other non-project efforts to not get “pushed down” by a swarm of project-related threads.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingXina, don’t forget you need to sign up for the project in order to participate.
Pat
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Yay! Thanks for approving it, Pat! Xina, thanks for joining. I can’t wait to see what you draw. All that talk in the Sketch thread about doing 100 sketches made me think of this — I know I’d benefit from doing a lot more sketching.
I also have a rock on my easel that has bits of mica in it that’s going to be very difficult to draw, but I want to try to convey its sparkliness. Maybe the Sennelier Iridescent White will help.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingI’ve never signed up for a project before and was thinking that this sounded quite interesting. I started poking around and clicked on “sign up” thinking this was going to take me to a different page to actually sign up. Imagine my surprise when I saw I was already signed up.
LOL What a fun surprise! I guess I don’t need to think about joining anymore. I better start hunting for some stones.gina ~*~
The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. ~ Lao-TzuThat’s right, when you click on sign up that is it “you are in”.
Welcome…have fun and start looking…
PatMy Website
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Gina, that’s great! Thanks for joining. I just picked up a small sketchbook and my Senneliers and posted my first study.
Everyone — you don’t have to number yours while you’re titling them because if two people post at the same time it could get confusing. I just numbered mine. So if yours is “pebble study number one” too, that is fine. I will be counting up the 100 myself when I look at the gallery and just count each unique study once no matter what its title is.
Also, if you have Senneliers in a set, this project is a great one for being able to use all the weird grays in the set. I know most of their sets have extra neutrals and grays that lean toward blue or green or violet or yellow. I used about four of my weird grays on my first one, so this is a lot of fun.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingRegarding this entry –> https://www.wetcanvas.com//Community/Projects/index.php?cmd=view_image&entry_id=66447
Rock Study 1
What a great rock, Robert. I really like all the colors you have achieved with the grays. Those Senn grays are awesome. I also like all the facets and values of the rock.
Pat
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oil pastel society member
my blog[/URL]
Regarding this entry –> https://www.wetcanvas.com//Community/Projects/index.php?cmd=view_image&entry_id=66447
Rock Study 1
Great job with the shadows and grays, Robert.
Bill
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DREAM! LAUGH! LOVE! LIVE! [/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR](Various)[/COLOR][/COLOR][/SIZE][/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]Thanks! I’m having so much fun with this. At last a reason to sort through my uncatalogued unlabeled rock collection. I have some fossils that I might do later on in this project too, never did get a good study of my dinosaur bone and its surface is so interesting. I might put that under the magnifier and not bother with its edges, just show the sliced and polished middle.
Robert A. Sloan, proud member of the Oil Pastel Society
Site owner, artist and writer of http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com
blogs: Rob's Art Lessons and Rob's Daily PaintingYou click on the link above the post with the image. It says regarding this entry.
Pat
My Website
oil pastel society member
my blog[/URL]
Regarding this entry –> https://www.wetcanvas.com//Community/Projects/index.php?cmd=view_image&entry_id=66447
Rock Study 1
Another comment so I can do it properly. The 2 shadows work nicely and help the solid form of the rock, and it does have a glittery look so must be even nicer IRL with a real glitter.Xina
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