finds
i'm really enjoying this box-sorting (although a shame we've got so little time to do it in). i have now dug out a bunch of my art materials - my winsor & newton studio set of water colours, winsor & newton soft pastels set, my random collection of the utterly delectable sennelier oil pastels, and some other bits and pieces. and today i got to play with them too. djelibeybi requested a portrait of noel, my australian-resident teddy bear, to go with the portrait of jacques-etienne i did back in london. it's been quite a while since i've drawn anything, and an extremely long time since i've used pastels at all, but i think the result's not too bad for a first attempt, although it doesn't look quite like him - a rough resemblance rather than "oh my goodness, that's noel!". i'll be having another go sometime soon. i particularly like the way the oil pastels worked for the eyes and nose, against the chalkiness of the soft pastels. will play more with this. the paper is canson mi-teintes black pastel paper.
