Oil Pastels

I love pastels and now I'm discovering oil pastels. They're not powdery and they don't smear which is an advantage. I love soft pastels too but I don't own any right now. I think I'll get a set with my Christmas bonus this year. We went to Hobby Lobby today and I kinda drooled over all the things that I want to buy. We went to Sears last night and got Bill a new camera for Christmas. He wanted a digital SLR camera and I think we got a good one, also got a 300 mm lens too. Since the camera costs so much he's going to give me his Christmas bonus so I'll have even more to buy art supplies with. Of course I might not get just art supplies. There are other things to get. Like new clothes. I haven't bought new clothes in a long time. We usually go to thrift shops. I don't have a problem with that, thrift shops have some really good quality stuff. I also got his old camera which I love.

Speaking of oil pastels I have a very helpful book which show some of the techniques. I also found some good blogs to study. The main thing is to just do it, paint, paint, paint. I've done several paintings so far. Following is a photo of the one that I did today. I know it's not perfect but I had fun making it.



Tomorrow our church is having our annual Thanksgiving dinner. Afterwards we'll have to clean up the mess, we usually have a lot of help so it won't be so bad. There's no church tomorrow night so we have the evening off. I want to see who won the next Iron Chef contest. That will be on tomorrow evening.

Vacation is over, sigh. I have another week coming but I don't think I'll be able to take it before the end of the year.

Photo of the day, I took this photo Thursday, from the top of Mt. Scott.



I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me.
John 14:6