Drawing Oranges In Oil Pastels Is My Therapy In Gloomy Days
Hello, how are you? I feel like emotionally internally today, and I feel bad for myself. I am so thankful that I have a lot of hobbies to distract me from it. I should practice positive affirmation. I lately discovered that if a lot of thing bothering you inside your head, write them down in a list or a paragraph, and I have never felt thankful about it. I used to write a journal, but I stopped because I don't want people finding out what I write about LOL.
Drawing using oil pastel is one of my therapies, other than my other hobbies. This one really does calm me, so whenever I feel like a gloomy mood is coming, oil pastel to the rescue. I've been into still life drawing fruits like an orange. I really love drawing oranges since then.
Materials I Used:
- Paper
- Oil Pastel
- Tissue
- Scatching Tool
Craft Time!
Draw the line art first, any color is fine, and then I added the respective color of each orange. Trust the process.
Color the background with a cool red color, just do it lightly in case I change my mind later, and then I added an outline to distinguish the dimension of each orange. I'm figuring out the lighter and darker of each orange in the moment.
I wanted the orange to be more dimensional, so I used dark blue to do the job. It will not look muddy when I mix those two colors because base on the tutorials I watched, if two colors are complementary it tend to blend well, and I guess it works, so I am going to do this technique again in my future drawings.
Fill out the background added layer of lighter color to balance.
Time to add texture, so I am going to use one of my clay tools as my scratching tool.
Here is a closer look.
I did justice to the drawing I felt relieved.
I thought I was going to fail on this drawing, so trust the process really worked. I hope you like it.
Thank you for visiting, see you on my next blog. :D
Please take care of your mental health as well.
I hope you are okay today :))
Please take care of your mental health as well.
I hope you are okay today :))
Its lovely how these oranges feel like more than just a drawing, the texture and color work make it really calming to look at, almost like a quiet reset on a rough day. Well done
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"Beautiful artistic work @leannwithdoublen 👏🤩!! It's a really lovely piece with its shadows and interesting details.
Did you study art, because I draw but never at such a professional level!! Greetings, friend, and have a nice day ☺️😊🙏"
So colorful and cheery. Your art style is really suited to pastels!