pastel

It's been fun drawing by carving into oil pastel.

Late night painting, oil pastels this time. And I just discovered using turpentine! And also how it's really bad for your health...

Purple moon

One of the scariest characters I've ever seen. The most frightening of the vampires from the movie "Fright Night" (1985). I had to draw her as a form of therapy. Thumbs-up for the art department on that movie! If she had had white eyes instead of the red eyes in the movie, I would've been irreparably damaged! :) (Pencil on paper, size A4).

Sketch with pastel pencil

Raffi the cat, so fluffy!

Tutorial on cat eye pastel pencil https://youtu.be/j0_8TK03n8Y

Different type of paper makes blending bit smoother

Isolation cats project, sleepy cat

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr. #Just_a_try_at_softpastels

Cat #2

Piotr, 2016

What we know as normal will be forever changed and this was a version of a semi dystopian future. 11”x14” pan pastel and color pencil on paper

Charcoal and a lil pastel on paper

This is my cat lemon! I used charcoal and pastel chalk pencils for this piece.

9x12in - pastel pans & pastel pencils - pastel paper

Shadows follow but I will move on! I have PTSD, so I am tormented by my past. Anxious for what's behind me. But I won't let that stop me! I may have "Lead in my shoes" (Dutch "Lood in mijn schoenen"), sometimes feel empty while on other times I am red from anger, nothing will stop me moving on. There will be temporary throwbacks, progress is not linear, but I will get there. I won't drown in self-pity this time.

Charcoal & pastels Digital art. Inspired by Sleep on the floor by the Lumineers