Oil Pastels

Oil Pastel exercise

I've owned some oil pastels for years and struggled a bit to understand how to get the best from them. This quick study was completed in under an hour and was inspired by a photograph. The photograph is very smooth with very defined boundaries and lots of grey/blue. I was going to paint it - and I may still do at a later date - but I thought it was a nice simple photograph to have a go with a medium I'm less familiar with.

I may improve the wooden posts at some point. The lights across the estuary were simply achieved by roughly leaving bare paper. The clouds were softened by rubbing with a kitchen towel.