Pastels

[Matthew Severson]

Michele
I'm definitely going into oils, they've been my intended career since I was 5. Unfortunately I've only done three paintings in oil in my life. I've had some bad experiences with them. One of them was being banned from paint for two years when I was 8. (I had no idea red paint would stick to white carpet like that.) Anyway...

When I was very young -young compared to what I am now, I went to the library and picked up books on Da Vinci, Ingres, Rembrandt and copied their many drawings, and I was criticized for creating nothing of my own. Now I find out I was doing the right thing...

Matthew

[Mike McCarty]

Matthew,

It's really exciting getting a big new box of color. I would check out this link below and see what can be done with a very few nupastel sticks.

http://www.williamwhitaker.com/B_HTM...6_tech/red.htm

If you can't find some suitable reference material I'm sure we can oblige you here.

give no thought at all to the quantity of materials consumed; the number of T-shirts stained, carpet ruined, walls needing to be repainted

And please don't tell your mother what I said.