Showing posts with label oil pastel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil pastel. Show all posts

Sunday, 20 January 2019

Roadtrip drawings

Capitol Reef (roadtrip drawing), Chaz Howkins, 2018, oil pastel on map
Arches National Park (roadtrip drawing), Chaz Howkins, 2018, oil pastel on map
Bryce (roadtrip drawing), Chaz Howkins, 2018, oil pastel on map
Bryce Canyon (roadtrip drawing), Chaz Howkins, 2018, oil pastel on map
Some drawings from my American roadtrip using oil pastels on top of the free maps given out at various National/State Parks.

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Reverting The Mind To A Childlike State

Shroom Selfie, Chaz Howkins, 2015, oil pastel

Abdul, Chaz Howkins, 2015, oil pastel
I wanted to expand on my quick sketches while still in a childlike mindset, so created these A3 portraits of myself and a friend in oil pastels.  I find these portraits interesting as I usually struggle with the use of colour in my work, but decided to use colour to represent movement and depth.  I stopped trying to be completely representational and decided to focus more on the experience of drawing.  I used oil pastels as they allowed me to change colours more easily than when using paint and the resulting outcome looked like a child using crayons.