January 20

Decided to play with my oil pastels today.  I found a youtube video and tried to mimic it.  I think I learned that my oil pastels are way soft.  They blend really well, but the more layers that are put on, especially with the darker colors, the more they tend to turn gray.  Especially black.  It picks up all the layers of the previous colors, and it's hard to keep the black and nice, dark, rich black.

I'm also very surprised how dirty your hands can get with oil pastels!

I like the nice blend of background colors, but I find my trees misplaced and not colored correctly.  Overall, not a very successful painting.  But it was fun.