Oil Pastel Puppy Portrait · Let’s challenge art

Oil Pastel Puppy Portrait

Hello everyone, I hope you are having great weekend.

Here I share a video of the process of painting a puppy in oil pastel.

I used my old oil pastel and a piece of paper for watercolour that I found in my studio. Nothing special. Also a cutter knife to scrape off the pastel if needed, and kitchen paper.

I lightly sketch in pencil the shape of the puppy from the reference photo. Then started to paint the white part of the puppy. I used a light grey as well as white to suggest the light shadow.

Then I move on to paint the darker colour, in brown and black and build up the darkness.

The eyes were a little complicated so I left them until later, white part needed to be cleaned off using the knife gently and carefully before applying white pastel.

The background was quickly scribbled and smudged by the folded kitchen paper.

It’s not a perfect painting but my style is not to copy the photo for a surrealistic effect. In my mind I had the images of sketches of Dega and Lautrec, as they are the masters of the movement of the human body with quick economic strokes.

I hope you like my video. Should you have any questions please let me know.

Thank you for watching.

Happy painting!

Midori

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