Oil pastel portraits of babies

It’s been several years since I painted babies, so this was a fun exercise I did using an old beat up book my husband found, and gave me.

The book is full of cute baby pictures, so I thought I’d colored over the photos with oil pastels, and stabilo pencils.

The pages are quite glossy, so I was having trouble getting the oil pastels to stick. Also, the pictures are quite small, and it was difficult to work with my larger oil pastels.

It gave me something to do that night, nonetheless. I don’t think I want to continue coloring in it, tho.

I was thinking of gessoing over the pages, and using the rest of the book as an altered book/art journal. But, the pages are too glossy for gesso, also. It would take several layers for it to stick, and hours of prep work. Gesso is super expensive these days – the last time I bought the Blick Master gesso for around $30. At one point it was $25, and now it’s $55. It would be wasteful to use it in this book, so I’m going to stop here.

I hope you have a lovely Monday.

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