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Published: 2010-11-27 20:00:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 2872; Favourites: 106; Downloads: 20
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An oil pastel painting of my brother's cats "Merlin" (on the left) and "Cobweb" (on the right). Sennelier and Neopastel oil pastels. A4 size (12x8 in). Lots of smoothing with fingers, paper stumps and even a firm paint brush to try to get a fur texture.This is my first attempt at painting or drawing animals, so please do let me know what you think.
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Thank you so much!
Dave
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Always a pleasure
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This is so precious and simply amazing. Really spot on...
You are extremely gifted. I don't know what else to say, just wow.
Jen
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oil pastels are very hard to use (i just tried to do one of a couple of dogs off a bad photo....) but these guys are cute
i especially like the little kitten on the right
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Thank you! I don't think oil pastels are hard once you have had some practice and experimented to invent your own techniques - especially if you are using extra-soft artist quality oil pastels. Keep on with them!
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no problem! oh, mine are VERY soft - they practically fall apart in my hand. 
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i thought this was a picture
great job!!!
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Thanks for the feature!
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Well done! You got the fur down great, makes me want to touch them. I am not a fan of oil pastels, I use the soft ones, so even more kudos to you!
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Thank you! I think oil pastels are great. I've haven't tried soft pastels since school - I don't like the idea of the dust and how easy it is to smudge the paintings...
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And the smudge factor is exactly why I like them so well. Dust is always an issue though, and no one sells the keyboard vacuums anymore. I do think though that oil pastels would be difficult to get off my cats, and would stain anything they walk on after reorganizing my studio.
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That's why I like oil pastels - there is no dust at all, and no mess. You just have to wipe your fingers with a paper towel after doing the finger painting bit. All of the pastel sticks to the paper!
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uuu !!! .... wonderful and sweety puppy >.< lovely print compliments !!!
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They're great. I can't work with pastels at all and fur is really difficult. IF this is a first try then I'm looking forward to the next one already!
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Thank you! My wife was very sceptical, as this is my first animal painting or drawing, but I think it's turned out pretty well.
Maybe more soon...
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Oh, yes definitely more!
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Dave you are becoming a master at the pastels my friend. Not an easy medium to work in, especially to capture cat fur and give it texture and depth. For your first attempt at this I would say you have it down pat. Fantastic. Onto the cats they are beautiful love their names as well.
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Thank you so much - maybe I'll do more animals one day. My wife loves cows...
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Me too the Black and white ones especially.That would be great to see some paintings of them if you are taking requests.
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Maybe later. I have a great photo of a brown cow, so will probably start with that one.
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Okay as long as you promise some time in the future to do Black and white one.I think you would do a great job.
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OK, it's a deal. I've had enough of black and white just for the moment - must be the two hardest colours to paint with... With brown I can mix a whole range of colours in to make it more interesting.
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The left one is almost the same as my cat!
Great job!
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You did an excellent job on this Dave, they look great.
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It's lovely. All the proportions look right to me - when I saw the thumbnail, I first thought this was a photo ^^
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Thank you! The proportions were quite easy, as I traced the photo, but it very distinctly a drawing/painting as I wanted to try to make it better than the photo (which was out of focus!)
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