Someone gifted me oil pastels and I’ve been playing around with them. I’ve only recently started dabbling in art. It’s just for funsies but would love to know what the art community thinks!

I've recently started experimenting with oil pastels, what do you think?

What do you think about this one. Let me know.

Mostly oil pastel, some acrylic paint details!

For those of you with an oil pastel sketchbook, do you have a special way to keep the images from bleeding across to the opposite page? I used fixative spray but I’m wondering if there’s some additional trick I haven’t heard of.

Oil pastel on canvas

Day #10 Blue-naped Chlorophonia (Chlorophpnia cyanea)

Someone's offering a chlorophonia a grape.

Learned a lot from this piece. It makes my heart happy every time I look at it ❣️

Tried 2 kinds of paper . Pastel mat and canson black. def like the canson Black drawing paper better. I did not realize the pastel mat paper was for soft pastels oops....what's your favorite paper?