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Paul (Dixie) Dean

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That’s very good for your first attempt, I find them quite difficult to sketch or paint.

Denise Cat

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That's an excellent first attempt Gillian.

Katy Dean

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That’s a good horse sketch Gillian, great first attempt! Love the sketchbook landscapes Sylvia, lovely colours.

Katy Dean

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Like the coal truck Paul, I can vaguely remember the coal man coming as a child but not such an old truck! Mine is a oil pastel seascape that materialised on an old piece of overpainted paper. I think I might try to develop it.

Sylvia Evans

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Happy horse. 

Carole Kelly

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Like the coal truck Paul, I can vaguely remember the coal man coming as a child but not such an old truck! Mine is a oil pastel seascape that materialised on an old piece of overpainted paper. I think I might try to develop it.
Katy Dean on 25/08/2021 18:46:03

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Like the coal truck Paul, I can vaguely remember the coal man coming as a child but not such an old truck! Mine is a oil pastel seascape that materialised on an old piece of overpainted paper. I think I might try to develop it.
Katy Dean on 25/08/2021 18:46:03

Carole Kelly

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Don’t often come on the Forum but your oil pastel seascape caught my eye. I love the colours and simplicity of it. Did you find it a huge challenge? Have just completed my first oil pastel and found it an exciting medium to use but haven’t a clue what I’m doing. Would like to attempt a seascape or landscape but I’m uncertain as to what surface to use. Is your painting on canvas Katy?

Katy Dean

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Hi Carol, it’s on SAA artists cotton canvas pad. I painted a mix of cadmium red and yellow acrylic on to cover something else and then doodled, to be honest, and this sort of appeared. I used a drop of linseed oil to move it around a bit and when dry brushed more pastel on. I have done more to it now and have probably lost that simplicity. I’ll post it on the gallery later. I agree it’s an exciting medium which I find quite easy to use, but I know a few of my art group find it difficult. Lucky we’re all different!😊

Katy Dean

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Sorry, turps not linseed oil🤔
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Robert Jones, Napa

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I think you COULD have used Linseed Oil - but the Turps will be much more effective in getting the pastel to move around and behave itself.  I don't normally use Turps (or other thinners) but in a hurry this evening to finish a sketch for further work tomorrow, I did use a splash of it - forgetting that the painting is in the room I have to sleep in - eejit!   Presuming your turps was REAL turpentine (mine is - hence the whiff) I'd have thought it might have played merry hell with your acrylic layer: perhaps the waxy pastel protected it, because Turps is one of the few things that can attack dried acrylic.  Incidentally, I do find oil pastel difficult - but nowhere near as difficult as I find regular pastel.  

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I sometimes do a Zoom session with MaryAnn Art Safari on Thursday evening.it’S an hour( free) of verrrrrry quick sketching.  Tonight we had the joy of Lizards .  When I say quick…it’s quick a few minutes four at the most . I’m on my small I pad . The G& T helps.  These are some of tonight’s efforts. 
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