Oil Pastel Fetish

When we moved I found something I had all but forgotten about. My oil pastels. Hidden away in a wooden briefcase they were dusty and almost 5 years old. My husband (boyfriend at the time) had bought them for me years ago when he found out I loved to create art. Now, with my newly found oil pastels I rekindled a love that I hadn't seen since high school. Ah, oil pastels, how I have missed you.

Fooling around for a bit I immediately fell in love all over again. Something about getting down and dirty with them brings me back to the days when sitting on the floor with crayons was the highlight of my day. Oil pastels helped me find a new passion in my art that I had not felt for a long time. The movements of my hand and arm felt so right. No messing with cranky brushes that never seemed to put on the canvas what I was trying to draw. I had gone back to pencil, back to basics, and the basics were boring to me. Oil pastels brought color back to my work and I started to make works that I wanted to share.

One of my first oil pastel works. Turtle in Monochrome. Pardon the line on the right, I am not too good at photo editing. My editing software and I do not see eye to eye all the time. Computer editing was never my strong suit, but slowly (hours later) I am able to bring my art to you. Watermarked and ready.

2013 Melissa Wenn

Turtle in Monochrome

Oil Pastel on Paper

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