Hi everyone and welcome to my brand new class on Portraits but this time with oil pastels!

I fell in love with oil pastels around a year ago when i wanted something more portable and opaque. The immediacy of 'oil pastels' made all sense suddenly when i thought of it. If i have some idea for my larger abstract work or even to draw a quick portrait i just grab my Oil pastel box and a sketchbook and i catch that moment without loosing any time looking for brushes or mixing palette or any other materials related to wet media like watercolor or oils for that matter . And the bold marks you can make with oil pastels means you can achieve impressionistic style portrait, still life, landscape and whatever else you can imagine.

This Oil pastel portrait class concentrates mostly on how to color portraits with oil pastels. To familiarise yourself to sketch the portrait you may refer to my earlier classes on portraits (sketching part) as this class is meant for students who already have an idea about sketching faces.

I have broken down the class into small chunks - skin color mixing, blending , drawing facial features and then finally drawing and coloring a whole portrait.

Nicole Campbell

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