Oil Pastel Trees

I really enjoyed experimenting with oil pastels today. I was rather unsuccessful with a drawing of apples, so I watched a couple of teaching videos online about working with oil pastels and tried again. I layered oil pastel better so colors were less muddy. I saw that I could blend once I had enough of the oil pastel in a certain area. It is very different from soft pastels. I'll try those tomorrow!

I had a lovely walk with Vickie on the Burke-Gilman Trail. We basked in the warm sunshine along with bikers, joggers and other walkers. So restorative. Later, we had dinner and nourishing conversation. Vickie's friendship is God's grace in my life. Thank you, Lord for the friendship of Vickie.

My thought for tonight: "Art thaws even the frozen darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience ". -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn