Among the delights of the
Horniman Museum (which do
not include rather a lot of unrestrained preschool children!) are the dodo and the opaki -
(and of course the famous threadbare overstuffed
walrus) and Victorian artefacts like this case of beautiful tiny creatures -
We were dispersed throughout the museum -
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| Jo's kachina dolls |
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| Carol's musical instruments |
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| Najlaa's butterfly brooch |
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| Janet K's dogs |
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| Janet B loves drawing people, even statues |
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| My "cutaway pigeon" (I do love a bit of skeleton) |
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... and sundry other animals, drawn at speed after a long
time spent gloomily staring at them |
Tool of the week - oil pastels - how do you use them?
The caf at the museum was very busy so we went down the hill to The Teapot, which lives up to its name -
I've just bought some oil pastels and was wondering the same thing! I expect to just play for a bit and smear them around a bit. Do they ever dry? I'm guessing no - since they would then become useless in the stick form. How do you deal with them in a sketchbook then? Wax paper interleaved in each page?
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I did an oil pastel course ,indulging in purchase of sennelier pastels which are very smooth,(like lipsticks) and a dedicated oil pastel sketchbbok with interleaved wax sheets - they don't dry. Nicest effects were over watercolour wash or using low-odor thinner to move them around ( like using oil paints)
ReplyDeleteHave spent many a happy hour in that museum.
ReplyDeleteThe line quality of your cutaway pigeon and the way the skeleton is superimposed on the drawing of the bird is most pleasing.
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