I wrote about my experiment with bringing oil pastels of different brands with me to my underwater sketching adventures on Bonaire. And below are several sketches which will show you how I:
- layered different colors (a lot of snugging, hard to judge results)
- used a side of the pastel crayon to cover a large part of the page quicker (enjoyed A LOT)
- how different pressure to different parts of the crayon created interesting texture variation (enjoyed A LOT)
- how I used a tip or sharp edge of the crayon to add details or even write in some instances (this is ok - but I found a better way - will collect those sketches into a separate post).
Bear in mind that all the colors look very different when you are looking at them under 60-70 feet of water, so most of my color choices had to be "blind". I tried to limit the number of colors that I took with me, and remember the overall shape of the crayon, and remember how the hue would shift (from the theory that red color disappears first and so on), and from previous experience.
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