Something I made 4 years ago. Tempted to redraw it with another medium.
Pastel drawing.
Henny Halloween. 🐔🎃
Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.
Some progress on my Christmas card illustration. I can tell that not painting much has affected my confidence quite a bit. I’m surprisingly happy with how it’s turned out so far, but also terrified to add a few more watercolour layers. Which I think is needed in some places.. (before I add pencil)
Panting. Painting. 😂😂😂
Lines are mostly done, just got to add some background stuff before I start panting.
Another one.
I feel like I need to get out my regular pencils and watercolour paint again though. Let’s see if I can make that happen tomorrow.
I wanted to start on my Christmas cards early for a change, but I have zero inspiration yet. 🥲😅
It really is quite a challenge to pick all the colours. It’s much easier to use oil pastels and then mix colours on the paper.
Definitely a fun challenge to pick a colour and then hope it turns out to be the one I wanted though.
Did a bit “treat-yo-self”, and bought a fancy set of soft pastels. Definitely fun to try out all the colours.
Here’s a small thing I just made.
Thank you:)
Some recent soft pastel sketches. I definitely struggle with this medium, but I also love playing with this material.
Playing with soft pastels
Drawing.
Leuk!
Two little illustrations, in two pretty little frames, on the corner of my desk.
Work in progress :) a little landscape.
Dankjewel!
Little sketch. I used khadi paper with one layer of pastel ground on it, but I think I either need to skip the pastel ground or add more layers. It was hard to get rid of all the white background where it didn’t work. Maybe I should’ve added a bit of colour to the pastel ground before adding it 🤔🤔
a purple one
I always love how you use lights and darks in your art!
Caldera 4: Western Hemlock
Charcoal on Stonehenge 250gsm
22x30 inches, 2025
Fresh off the board, returning to the Caldera series after a few years away. This piece is also available for purchase as a signed loose paper drawing (unframed) on my website amoryabbott.com
‚Bluebeard‘ Illustration for my Fairytale Collection
#art #bluebeard #fairytale
Some more pastel playing. Layering and picking the right colours is kind of tricky.
I also think just one layer of pastel ground on watercolour paper may not have been enough. 🤔
Dag 15 van de #februarivogelmaand : putter
Gebaseerd op een foto van @sannevroom.bsky.social
This is lovely! Oil pastels are so fun to play with 😊
Sky Over Paris
Watercolor - 23x17 inches
@bsky.art
Not great, but fine for a practise piece. I do like the corner on the top left.
Learning about how to layer colours here. And I also use a watercolor paper with pastel ground on top of it this time. Pastelmat definitely works better, but is also so much more expensive!
QRP with your wings #art
Cover art for @marinalostetter.bsky.social book The Teeth of Dawn, client: Tor
QRP with your wings! ✨
