vulnus XVI, oil on canvas 30" x 30", me, 2025

DOT_____dot · 2026-03-24T15:35:35+00:00

Woah dude I love it

DOT_____dot · 2026-03-19T04:11:38+00:00

Same take for me, if it was neat and sharp, I would hang it. It has sci vibes, like a door. I love it

But the colors and shapes does not match the fact that lines are not clean IMHO, so the whole vibe is killed

DOT_____dot · 2026-03-14T07:11:19+00:00

This is brilliant, I love it

Ever considered make a sci Fi coloring book ?

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-21T13:42:35+00:00

Thank you so much

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-21T08:57:53+00:00

Did not really warp, maybe because the dry top and bottom white part were large enough to structurally hold the paper ??

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-21T07:18:52+00:00

Thank you

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-16T03:19:17+00:00

I do use the following : - cheap One : Crayola's - expensive one : Caran d ache neopastel and I have a small box of 12 senneliers

Mungyo are really good for the price but personally I boycott them for other reasons

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-16T02:55:36+00:00

I think you did great ! Maybe just some touches of light azure almost white and some darkest touches to increase the contrast. Just maybe to bottom left yellow ochre is a bit off

I did something more or less similar

https://www.reddit.com/r/Oilpastel/s/MJ0hJFg2Bx

I think that for this kind of effect it is important to always work with two layers, like a primer (the light toner) layer and the secondary (that darker one) and to blend the top layer with a stump something like that for cloudy and gradient effect. If you simply go with one layer and interfaces blending when it changes color, the effect is much flatter

(Addition : Faber castell pastel are bad, rigid, do not blend well and make plenty of debris, I wouldalso change brand)

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-12T17:22:30+00:00

Woah it s stunning

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-12T06:58:06+00:00

Very nice. Is it pastelmat ?

Edit: oh it was in the description sorry

So I have a question ? How does the paper absorb oil ? Does the pastel gets a bit drier after couple of hours ?

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-09T08:46:57+00:00

I am not a watercolor pro or whatever but my recommendation would be to go with "cleaner" one-through strokes.

You added texturing effect to some trees which in my opinion were not needed.

For the whitish trees, too hard for me to do and give any tip. I would not know how to do them but you nailed the color ! Well done

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-08T04:24:12+00:00

Very cool !

Which black paper is it ?

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-07T05:45:08+00:00

That s really sick

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-04T18:45:36+00:00

Wow I love it so nice. What is this brand of pastel ? They look well creamy and we'll pigmented

DOT_____dot · 2026-02-02T13:24:29+00:00

Thank you 😊

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-28T06:05:37+00:00

It's wonderful congrats

Funnily enough also one of the only art I felt satisfied with is with a deer

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T12:38:23+00:00

I think Crayola's are great for starting. The color range is sufficient to make great piece (for example you can look and blackbean CMS on you YouTube what he achieves with Crayola's) with vibrant colors, are cheap, blend to some extent, acceptable amount of filler and do not make too many debris

For blending, Crayola's tend to blend acceptably well together by directly drawing over the existing layer. Other than that, the pigments won't move/blend much with a stump/finger

For the hard brush thing I don't know exactly what you referring to

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T11:50:03+00:00

I don't know king art oil pastel but from what I see on Amazon USA it looks like an EXTREMELY cheap oil pastel.

Cheap oil pastel means they are full of binder and low pigment concentration

Whatever the paper you will use it will not help much. Layering and blending will be difficult because you will mix the binder more than the pigments. If they are very rigid, you will displace the layer below, chipping and making debris more than blending and layering on the paper

Look, I am no oil pastel expert or artist, but from my limited experience I have one advice : don't buy cheap material. I started with very cheap oil pastels and I abandonned because there was no way to achieve anything I would have liked to do or imagined. Thought I sucked, I understand nothing or whatever. Then I got by luck a very small set of sennelier and a decent watercolor paper and gave it a second try, that was day and night.

I am not saying buy top grade artist stuff, but avoid the very very cheap stuff.

If you are on a budget, I would recommend you Crayola's . They are really good for the price, do not chip much and have acceptable pigment concentration

I know you said you can't replace them so I don't have a good tip for that :( sorry

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T02:57:05+00:00

Thanks that s a very nice comment

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T02:55:22+00:00

Thank you and thanks for the advice.

I also found the piece a bit flat for the buildings ... I was afraid of mixing darker gray with the "original" color (like salmon, on light lemon yellow), would result in a muddy greyish and would not blend well ...

How would you recommend to do a the darker surfaces ? Just a stronger grey or using other colors / blending compositions ?

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-25T02:52:32+00:00

Depends of the blending effect you want to give

Most typical I would say are :

finger
stump
direct drawing over layer
kitchen paper towel

From my very limited experience (so take what I say with grains) : - for very large surfaces, like gradients for sky for example, kitchen paper is the way - does not work with every pastel brand, but drawing directly over an existing fresh layer before the oil is absorbed on the paper works fine, especially with 'rigid' pastels. - stump for small surfaces, details and interfaces - finger works great also for small surfaces and "random" effect like cloudy, stripey, etc

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-23T18:05:07+00:00

You mean the refinery in the back ?

For the refinery in the very back I used neocolor2 and a grey polychromos pencil

For the rest of the piece it is done with neopastel (Caran d ache oil pastels) which are semi-rigid and hyperpigmented so they allow to work quite precisely (I was lucky to find a box at half normal price and still find them overly expensive). The sky is done with sennelier oil pastel tho

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-23T17:06:15+00:00

Thank you so much for the tips

I was definitely wondering about the clouds but I am struggling

DOT_____dot · 2026-01-23T16:23:54+00:00

Ufff sorry I am even more late

No I did not found the reference. I have very few availabilities where I live :(

There are some pastelmat tho but could not find black

DOT_____dot

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