Here are a couple wet pastel paintings. I have done many of these wet pastel paintings. I was completely influence by Mark Englsih (http://www.markenglishonline.com/) when he did works with wet pastels. My first thoughts about the pastels was how horrendous are pastels. But I kept at it and now I feel pretty comfortable with pastels. It is a direct direct drawing medium and when you wet the pastels with a wide brush loaded with mineral spirits it becomes a very interesting method – runs, smears, color bleeding into other colors, lifting color back off and the painterly quality of the wet pastels is very unique. It can be very frustrating but it is a drawing skill builder! Thank-you Mark for all the inspiration.
