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From wabbitt

Tangerines, oil pastels in the 9x12 inch sketchbook. This is it! Number 100 of 100 of the oil pastel sketch challenge. It's also one of the scavenger hunt items (fruit) that I sketched between Christmas meals. I just can't get on Wetcanvas to upload my few sketches.

Basket of Goodies

A weak attempt at the finish line. A basket drawn for scavenger hunt in oil pastel, about 7 x 4 inches, the background color added digitally. This would be OP sketch #99 of 100. If I do one more, I'll make one of my 2009 art goals! Got the basket of fudge brownies and golden brownies as a Christmas present from a neighbor.

OP #97 & 98 of 100

Trying Ryan Kelly again. Unfortunately, I lost his smile on the first (left) but I'm really happy with his proportions. I guess I forgot to tilt the drawing board again on the second (right) because I stretched the face and lost the resemblence. Couldn't detail the teeth on this surface because of the texture. Pentel oil pastels on 9x12 inch cheap canson pastel paper that I binded into a sketchbook. Crosspost to artsomofo for #19 & 20.

OP #96 of 100

This is supposed to be Paul Byrom. I've figured out why my portraits have been looking like stretched out caricatures--I'm working flat and my reference is vertical (the monitor). I've suspected this, but what to do? 4x6 inches is too small to prop up. Yea, yea, sketch bigger. When I'm sketching, I don't pre-sketch, else it wouldn't be a sketch, would it?

All that said, Paul's face really is long and so is his nose. It's long and thin. He has an amazing voice, classically trained, he's got fantastic range and he can project!

Crosspost to artsomofo & the wetcanvas's OP forum, I think.

OP #95 of 100

Reference is "Dee" from the WDE that EP is hosting this weekend. Also attempting the challenge at using primary colors only. 30 minutes, oil pastels in the 4x6 inch Aquabee. I'll post this to artsomofo with the sock monkeys and I'm still "minus two scans" but minus one art.

OP #94 of 100

This is Simon from the WDE hosted by mbeckett on Wetcanvas. 30 min in the large watercolor Moleskine, oil pastel over acrylic. This finishes off my 10th sketchbook.

OP #92 & #93 of 100

A cup from scavenger hunt I'm hosting this week.
From a travel catalog. No idea on the details, but this puts Sketchbook #9 to rest. There's actually many attempts at a drawing (artist block since getting laid off). Started with a watercolor, covered with 3 or 4 attempts at an acrylic sketch, finally covered with black acrylic and drawn with Neopastel oil pastel.

OP Challenge #86 thru #91 of 100

Items from Scavenger hunt #135 hosted by Ai, all done in (new Caran D'Ache NeoPastel) oil pastels in the 9x12 inch recycled paper sketchbook.