"Waterfall Study"
Oil Pastel on Paper, 40cm x 30cm (15¾" x 11⅞")
My painting today is a study of an original motif by Friedrich Nerly.
Friedrich Nerly the Elder (1807-1878) was a German Romantic painter whose gorgeous vedute of his adopted city of Venice can be admired in many art museums. (A veduta is a large, highly detailed painting, usually of a cityscape.)
Before I can try my hand at painting vedute someday, I'll have to put in just a few more 😉 practice hours, but fortunately Nerly's waterfall was a somewhat easier subject.
"Venice at Sunset"
Veduta by Friedrich Nerly, via Wikimedia Commons
Mein heutiges Gemälde ist die Studie eines Originalmotivs von Friedrich Nerly.
Friedrich Nerly der Ältere (1807-1878) war ein deutscher Maler der Romantik, dessen einzigartige Veduten seiner Wahlheimat Venedig in vielen Kunstmuseen bewundert werden können. (Eine Vedute ist ein sehr detailliertes, großformatiges Gemälde, üblicherweise eine Stadtansicht.)
Bevor ich mich irgendwann an der Vedutenmalerei versuchen kann, muss ich noch ein paar 😉 Stündchen üben, aber Nerly's Wasserfall war da zum Glück ein etwas leichteres Sujet.
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Los trabajos están muy bien ejecutados, felicitaciones , me gusta muchos como matizas las gotas chispeadas algunas líneas del agua duras pero muy bien ejecutas, felicitaciones.
Muchas gracias por tu comentario y saludos desde Alemania. 😀
lovely paintings.
Thank you 😀
Amazing! I thought it was oil painting or acrylic at the first glance, then I saw it was oil pastel. Well, it's a technique I've always been averse to. Maybe it's also because many shops sell wax crayons as oil pastels. What do you think it would be like to use a mixed technique with watercolors?
I had mixed feelings about oil pastels, a love-hate relationship, and now I love them! The key is, to learn the medium and get GOOD quality pastels. Of the European brands, only Sennelier and Caran d'Ache Neopastel are worth buying. On a tighter budget, Mungyo from Korea are great (Amazon, Ebay) but no open stock.
You can also modify cheaper, tougher oil pastels (e.g. Jaxon) with baby oil to become soft and buttery. "Penaten" brand is made of high quality parafine oils and surely available in Hungary. Instructions a bit further back in my blog. Added benefit: you can mix and make any color oil pastel sticks you like!
Oil pastels play well with (over) other media including watercolor. I underpaint with gouache - works great. It may also be worth investigating the water repellent quality, kinda like masking.
They work on pretty much any substrate or paper. A matte watercolor paper works fine, also a mixed media paper.
Blend with fingers, Q-Tips, tissue, tortillon (estompe), silicon color shapers, or paint thinner on brush. It depends on both pastel and paper brands which blending method works best.
Try it!
Thanks so much!