Oil Pastels

Since I liked the oil pastel quite a lot especially on the collaged surface, I decided to try the pastels again on a darker more textured surface. I drew a Spanish street in quite an abstract style. (I prefer abstract and illustration over still life and accuracy.) I do actually like this. I like how the colours look together. The only issue would be that you cannot really see the background through the pastel easily, its blocked it out a lot, especially the coffee stains i used for it so i trued to leave light marks in sone areas. This is also the reason to the drawing fading out in the top left corner because i wanted the background to have some attention abs be made aware if in this image.

A problem with this surface was that because it went so dry and crispy it became delicate because the bits of newspaper and envelopes was trying to fall off. The page couldn’t be bent or folded at all. I think this was because of the cleaning product I used on it and maybe it sort of deteriorated the paper or the glue. To try and solve this issue I had to re-stick the paper bits back to the paper with glue and press it down firmly to try and make it stay; it was still delicate but at least it was safe to work on with pastels.