February .. I just had to paint a landscape after a month of painting still lifes for the Strada Easel challenge. I was till indoors in lockdown so I watched a Tony Allain pastel video organised by the Mall Galleries and then painted it myself in mixed media this morning. Very chocolate box but enjoyed it. Unfortunately I now need to replace some sennelier oil pastels! Expensive hobby painting !

I used this to influence my own painting 'The Station House' in oil pastel.

 

Oil pastel painting of my still life arrangement. It is on card treated with a gesso and pumice ground. Only a4 size mount so quite small for an oil pastel as the sennelier sticks are quite soft and thick. I used a variety of blending techniques and scraping back to neaten edges.