Lemonade (before and after-or-possibly-during) - an experiment

Lovely bright blue background to this Amanda and that really sets the scene well for this still life pair, great realistic glass, good highlights on the glass and bottle

It's a miniature bottle - problem solved. You've certainly sharpened the picture up, and it reads much better. Being boring, I have technical questions .... did you use the oil pastel "straight", or add medium to soften the edges? Do you think it was easier working with oil pastels than it would have been with paint sticks? Did you find the oil pastel sat well with the previously applied oil paint, or was the texture noticeably different? Don't feel you have to answer any of these!

No trouble to answer you technical questions, Robert ... ~~ I did use the oil pastel straight (it never occurred to me to use medium / solvent; I don't use it anywhere else, after all! - With the exception of water with brush-painted acrylic, that is). ~~ I have never used paint sticks, so I don't know. ~~ The texture was different where I allowed it to be. Light application gave a slightly sketchy cloth feel to the surface, which I liked for the areas of tablecloth. Heavier application (with a little assistance from a finger or a silicon paintbrush thingumajig every now and then) was quite smooth and not very far from the surface texture of the original oil paint. The most annoying thing was where the oil pastel caught in the troughs of the paint's more rugged texture - that was when I started paring the paint away a bit.

Oil pastels have always intrigued me; how to blend; what support to use them on; do they need fixing and how to frame .... I like this painting. They make small lemonade bottles ....

Thank you, Gudrun. Oil pastels are something of a curio. My Sennelier ones claim to have been developed for Picasso; I think they were a development of a Japanese educational art crayon, itself an adaptation of the humble wax crayon. I used to have some cheaper oil pastels and they didn't blend well or feel good in use. I am using paper sold for use with oil pastels for works solely in that media (reminds me - I might post one such later). It does work on regular paper, but I'm not sure about the wisdom of this for anything that you might want to keep. Framing I would think might be best under glass, but not for this because of the impasto (I might try a spray varnish at some stage). I expect that a canvas board would be an excellent support.

Blending - I tend to use fingers, which is messy. The silicon shaper works for small areas. You can use solvents; I haven't tried that.

Thanks for information. Food for thought.