This is an oil pastel painting of a "one of a kind" Lion. There are no prints, this is an original piece of art. Ready To Hang Size: A3 on 200gm paper Frame Size: 542mm x 422mm Snow White Border size: 50mm Painting size: 420mm x 297mm About the Art: I paint using a variety of 36 colours of oil pastel. Mixed and blended using my own hands to create unique colours and with the addition of a traditional blending pencil, can create rich and layered textures giving a human feeling to finished work. Using oil pastel that is unset gives the art a living quality, as over time through movement, touch, and sunlight the painting is ever evolving in its appearance. All these are qualities highly sort after with the evolution of AI digital art prints, whose flat cold finish can never emulate with expression of a human creator. Each artwork is completed on heavy high-quality paper. The weight of which is explicitly stated on each item. The frames are handmade locally in Leith from natural wood and use real glass About the Artist: As every child starts out drawing and painting, I’m one who never stopped. Drawing pictures for my grandparents with pencil crayons moving to GCSE art classes experimenting with sculpture and different media and settling into using water colours for many years. Being colour blind I only painted in shades of blue black and white and creating portraits for friends and family’s birthdays, making cards and gifts and even storyboarding a Western. In recent years I have created digital artwork and an album package and t-shirt designs for Wendy Rae Fowler, along with traditional Japanese woodblock print posters. Though using a limited colour palette for so many years I increased my understanding of creating shade dynamics and textures and now my painting has come full circle to incorporate a full and bold colour selection and an even more impressionist depiction. Moving from the country to the city I was gifted some oil pastels and had hopes or using them to paint faster, bolder pictures of outdoor landscapes around Edinburgh, but what has happened I have ended up bringing the animal kingdom to the city focusing on animal portraits, along with the odd human being. Now I am offering my services for any commissioned request of pet, animal, or human portraits with still an eye in the future to getting to paint some landscapes. Shipping Constraints: U.K Currently based in Edinburgh, Scotland all free shipping for U.K delivery addresses for any size artwork, framed or unframed. It will be sent tracked and signed for. FREE SHIPPING! Worldwide: I’m not in the business of transatlantic glass shipments. I’m happy to ship artwork of any size worldwide Anything unframed. It can be mounted or not, at your own discretion. But I am unable to ship framed artwork at the risk of the glass smashing during transportation which isn’t covered by shipping insurance. There is a standard shipping charge for all artwork and will be sent tracked and signed for.
Color Pencil Drawings: Color pencil drawings are a fantastic medium to work on. Depending on the brand and quality of pencils, you can find them in different prices. Once you master five techniques
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By Carrie Lewis in Art Tutorials > Drawing Tips Some time ago, I shared a list of fast, easy backgrounds for colored pencil drawings. The list included really simple things like using pre-colored papers or mat board, lightly tinting paper with colored pencil, and using other media with better covering power than pencils (watercolor, ink, etc). Since then, I’ve talked to enough fellow artists to realize I’m not the only one who sometimes gets tired of doing backgrounds for colored pencil. I […]
This is my reproduction of a drawing from the book "Colored Pencil Solution Book" by Janie Gildow & Barbara Benedetti Newton. I found this book to be a great reference for colored pencil work. Medium: Prismacolor Pencil Date: 04/03
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We had another SketchCrawl just over a week ago: this time we went to Huddersfield for the day. I was hoping for warm weather, as I really fancied drawing outside, but unfortunately it was decidedly chilly, with a bitter wind. Our first stop was drawing in and around the station. It's a lovely old building but, what with the cold and the unlucky timing (we discovered the whole facade was covered in scaffolding) a few of us headed back into the station to draw on the platforms. This is the view from platform 8 where I was lucky enough to find a train that was not in service, so stayed where it was for the 45 minutes we had: Next we went to Byrams Arcade. One of the locals said we might get a good view out from the top, so about half the group headed upstairs. We weren't sure if we were supposed to be there, as it was all empty shop on the top storey. To get to a window, we had to be in one of the shops. I tried the door... it opened. I'm totally sure we weren't supposed to be in the shop itself, but nobody was there to tell us off, so we all huddled together in front of the big window and drew this amazing array of chimneys: Next stop was lunch - hurrah! There was a fabulous cafe in the arcade which luckily had a back room. We pretty much filled that. We had coffee and, while we waited for our food (which was gorgeous), I sketched my cup: We headed for the market next. It was a big area, crammed with all different kinds of stalls, selling everything from fruit to guitars. There was a lovely Victorian cast-iron roof in red and blue which I was tempted to sketch but, in the end, I found a little corner with a step to sit on and a view out to the street. I was next to a stall selling CDs, so I got great music while I worked. I also captured a few of the group on the other side of the road: Several people stopped to chat to me. One man got very excited and said over and over that I should go onto Britain's Got Talent! Our final sketching stop was Huddersfield Library. It was raining by now and most of the group had got cold, so they headed inside to get warm and dry, but there was a shopping centre opposite, which had an overhanging roof, so I sat in a closed shop front, sheltered under the overhang, and drew the building itself: A small girl and her mum came by and watched for a moment on their way to the shops. On their way back they stopped again. They didn't say anything, but the little girl gently passed me one of her sweets. Cute. We went to another cafe to share the work. They were selling very tempting cakes, but I resisted and just had a mocha. As ever, there was a great variety of very interesting work to look at. We chatted around a big table, passing the books round, oo-ing and ah-ing and occasionally holding one up: "Who did this?". Thanks so much to Matthew and Peter for their help in choosing the sketching venues. Another smashing day out in great company! If you want to join us some time, drop me an email.
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