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| Self Portrait, oil pastel and pen, 9x12, March 18, 2011 |
I'm in Seattle at the National Art Educator's Convention. One of the vendors is offering a bagful of free art supplies to everyone who takes the time to draw a self portrait in oil pastels. At first I planned to only spend 10 minutes or so, but I found that I needed to draw more than I needed to stick to my original plan of sessions to attend. I really truly need to draw more. I do not even know yet what I want to draw or paint. I think that the only way to figure that out is to make lots of drawings and to make them fast.
Because I sat there so long working on this, one of the employees gave me a set of "artist's quality" oil pastels. They have lightfastness ratings and everything. I have a hard time believing that oil pastel drawings can be permanent. Anyone out there have any thoughts or knowledge about that?
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