and then moving to Caran d'Ache oil pastel. The (unsuspecting) model was in a quartet I was lucky to see and being close to the musicians, I zeroed in on this violinist. It's totally a memory drawing, but I think really pretty accurate. I love drawing musicians as much as I love drawing dancers. Gotta have music to dance, right? The support for this piece is the carton board (carton is supposed to have an accent over the "o" but I don't know how to do it) from Guerrilla Painters. I love this stuff. It's great for oil pastel, charcoal, oil, acrylic and others, too, I'm sure. If I use it for oil, I use clear gesso so I don't lose the beautiful color, which would happen if I used regular gesso. With oil pastel, I just draw directly on the paper since OP contains a different type of oil that won't damage the support. And the carton will then be bonded to museum board for extra strength. Thanks for stopping by!
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