Female form

rosepepper

Female form

Oil Pastel on cartridge paper
In earlier days I used a lot of oil pastel, making drawings that became paintings really, the paper was absolutely covered. I went to the shop almost everyday to buy a small packet of 12 colours and the store keeper astounded at the quantity I used asked what I did with them… did I eat them or something..! It was the white, deep blue and black that I consumed with a fury.
In this one i explored the rendering of the female form taken from a life drawing sketch. I was learning about the play of light on form and the rocks were added to blend the curves of the female form with natural organic forms.

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Female form by rosepepper
Female form by rosepepper
  • fesseldreg

    fesseldreg

    Very nicely done! – unusual and beautiful use of colour! :)

  • rosepepper replied

    thanks fesseldreq & for favouriting. I do like your page, the playful animals and storytelling sense of humour :)

  • Vellu

    Vellu

    Beautiful drawing.

  • rosepepper replied

    we have clay in common, giving volume to the figure comes from working the clay, can see it in your figures in a different way.. thanks Vellu.

  • Astrid Strahm

    Astrid Strahm

    Great great Style! :-)

  • rosepepper replied

    thanks Astrid, oil pastels were my favourite medium for a while. :)

  • Karirose

    Karirose

    Lovely lines and color choices. The play between light and dark creates great interest. So very nice.

  • rosepepper replied

    thanks so Karirose, somehow the dark colours made the lights lighter.. thanks for your lovely comments. :)

  • Barbara Sparhawk

    Barbara Sparhawk

    Wonderful, rosepepper. Filled with your usual vitality and glowing life, your skill with the human form. I am always impressed by the depth of your paintings, that they speed into the background so brilliantly and then boomerang back to the up-front/present. Your colors (and what a terrific story about the clerk’s suspicion you were eating your oil pastels!) are always so rich and enveloping, always feel I could happily plunge in. Well done. It’s wonderful.
    I recently read that the Italian Renaissance artists invented perspective. It surprised me, I had thought of it as something that was there and then discovered. But I can see that opinion was right. The author of that thought (who’s name I’m sorry I can’t recall) also said that perspective is the rationalization of sight’ which I found fascinating. It’s true! in that it explains the function of eyesight, the way it works, how distance and close up are registered in the brain by our eyes.
    You always have such a powerful feel for it, and it’s evident again in this fine painting

  • rosepepper replied

    many thanks fellow artist, your words lift off the page & always give me a tremendous lift. I don’t consciously draw up perspective or scientifically render shadow & light, it just comes in the drawing by instinct. I totally agree, artists know more than they can explain and it takes science to validate what the artists already know. Perspective as a precise tool of illusion is a perfect example. The only smart thing the horrible Nietzche said was that western thinking is terribly limited because it is rational and basically in a straight line- a logical, deductive process… very limiting to the creative brain that finds other ways to come to the same conclusion. And here it is the rationalization of sight as you brilliantly suggest. Aye, the first painting with perspective & a vanishing point was done by Masaccio ( the Holy Trinity) probably influenced by the architect Brunelleschi in the 1400’s and written about by Vsari. The painting was astonishing at the time & although I think earlier painters nearly got it like Giotto, they did not have the science to explain it formally! Leonardo was really showing off in The Last Supper – the vanishing point became a powerful psychological device for the focal point on Christ’s head and this is when I really checked it out. And you are right Renaissance art is full of it, a new tool in the box of tricks confirmed by the technical correctness of scientific thinking.

  • conniecrayon

    conniecrayon

    love your colours and the softness of the subject ((O:

  • rosepepper replied

    thanks connie for your nice comments :)

  • Shoaib .

    Shoaib .

    wow this is great !!! you def do have a natural way about your art … this is a perfect example of that !

  • rosepepper replied

    thanks so Shoaib, drawing is discovery for me as writing is for you. :)

  • Martin Kirkwood

    Martin Kirkwood

    I’m not very good with words which is why I paint pictures instead.

    I only have one thing to say. “brilliant”.

  • rosepepper replied

    thank you so much Martin. :)

  • JaneAParis

    JaneAParis

    Beautiful and so feminine…the colors and light really make it too…Smiles from Jane…

  • rosepepper replied

    i like your profile pic Jane, thanks for your comments :)

  • Scott d'Almeida

    Scott d'Almeida

    outstanding,

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