A pear in oil pastels

A recent sketch done with Sennelier oil pastels over Sennelier oil paper:

1) I started with a simple sketch to establish the dimensions;

2) Then I used some watercolors as a background color, just to remove the white and have a reference to where the shadows would be;

3) Then I went in with the oil pastels, these are very creamy and you can lay down color very quickly with them;

This took me about an hour to do. Sennelier paper for oil pastels works very well, but the effect is very close to what you would get with a Canson Mi-teints for example.

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