Maybe I should have waited until next January to post this:
(oil pastel on card)
When I was first introduced to oil pastels in high school I hated them with a passion. I remember drawing a still life one day and every time I tried to add more pastel on top of a previous layer, the previous layer would come off. It was really frustrating. The problem with that still life turned out to be the really crappy card I was given to draw on. Of course practice makes (almost) perfect, and I did end up drawing a huge A1 piece in college, but I still didn't like them. So, seeing as I haven't used oil pastels in over 10 years and my pastel set is around about the same age, this was a bit more of an experiment with those vintage sticks than anything else. I guess they stood the test of time :)
