Awesome Graffiti

When I come to England I get to see many of my favourite people, which makes me feel warm and happy inside. One of these faves is Leanne: a real life Londoner! She took me to brick lane to hang with the cool kids and there was so much wonderful graffiti!

 

Art A Level: Kinda Big Oil Pastel Portraits

Following on from my other oil pastel portraits I wanted to do some which were a bit bigger. These ones are slightly smaller than A3 size. I probably can't do very many more because I pretty much used up all my most useful colours of oil pastel.

The second one was inspired by mermaids: I've been reading a mermaid series of books recently and very much want a shimmering tail and to eat sushi under the sea (where do they get the rice?) My reading habits are not very mature: my excuse is that I'm currently writing a novel for teens. My other excuse is that a lot of teen fiction is actually really good!

Art A Level: Oil Pastel Portraits

I'm doing an Art A-Level at the school I work at (well, I work in Primary). I would say that it's just for fun, but I'm really hoping I will get a good grade!

To learn to use oil pastels I coloured with them directly on top of photocopied images of people (I'm focusing on portraiture). On some of them you will notice that I used only warm or cold colours: others are mixed. I've actually made so many of these! It's a lot of fun to not have to worry about the drawing part, and I'd recommend it if you're feeling nervous and just want to get stuck in.