I’m getting a little more experience with the oil stick medium, and plan to persevere until I can complete some drawings with it. The drying time of some of the brands is a real drawback. I really wish the fastest drying ones were available in more colors! My “Wild Horse with Blue Nose” is moving along steadily, and I’m looking forward to completing it. I had to stop working on it yesterday to watch the Super Bowl and Downton Abbey!
Wild Horse with Blue Nose
Here’s another photo from yesterday of frosty grass in a Bowman County ditch.
It was a gorgeous morning on the Northern Plains, with blue skies and a thick white frost on the cottonwoods and tumbleweeds. I drove north of Bowman to take in the crisp winter scenery.
It was a foggy, frosty day around here, and the tree branches were coated with a delicate white winter veil. This is a view from the east side of the fairgrounds.
As I go back over my photo files from last summer, I see new possibilities for photos I overlooked before. The strong shape of the curved slopes and the edges lit by the sun appealed to me in this image.
I worked on the foreground of my “Pink Grass, Montana” drawing this afternoon.
I’m going back over my summer files to see what I can do with different filters. This is a view of the badlands near Terry.
I got back to my new oil stick drawing of a Montana landscape this afternoon. It’s based on a photograph I took near Terry in June, which I enhanced with filters.
Big Sky with Orange Clouds
I remember working on my sunflower drawings last winter, when the snow was so deep and the temperatures so low. This winter has been so very mild, with hardly any snow, and temperatures in the forties and even fifty degrees in January! It still is fun to work on something with such vibrant color when nothing is growing or blooming outside. Today I put the final touches on this drawing, and I look forward to having it in my living room for a while.
Sunjoy
I continued to make progress on my new pastel pencil drawing of a Montana landscape today. One of the things I really like about the image is the rugged badlands horizon with the little trees perched on top.
Pink Grass, Montana