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Drawing a Parrot (Oil Pastel) + Pretty Bird card

May 29, 2019 by Sandy Allnock 6 Comments [featured_image}

This week’s fine art treat is brought to you by the Pretty Birds stamp set from Picket Fence! I have a thing for parrots, so even though the stamps are (I think?) cockatoos, I went the parrot direction anyway! I wrote a children’s story that I have yet to illustrate about the rainforest – and a parrot would be one of the characters.

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These aren’t the artist-quality brand of Faber Castell oil pastels – but they’re some of the ones used in the kids Self Portrait Class I launched recently! I figured I’d see what else I could do with them. This set comes with a little do-hickey that creates lines and patterns, but I just used my stylus for this.

Ain’t he a pretty birdie?

I made a card from the stamp set – creating a green background with light highlights created with a colorless blender.

  • ART:
  • Faber-castell Oil Pastels Set of 50
  • Sennelier Oil Pastel Sketchbook
  • CARD:
  • Pretty Birds, Picket Fence Studios Clear Stamps
  • Lawn Fawn Ink Pad, Jet Black
  • Copic Markers
  • Neenah Cardstock
  • Uniball White Pen

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  1. Henriëtte says

    May 31, 2019 at 1:49 pm

    I had seen the awesome parrot also on your Instagram and thought it was stunning to see how you made this, wow!! Is there any medium you can’t work with? Because I don’t believe so.
    Your card is also great.

    Did you wrote and illustrate the children’s story for publishing or just for fun?

    Thank you so much Sandy for showing this awesome art work and have a great weekend.

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  2. Janice says

    May 31, 2019 at 7:47 am

    Where can I look to find the instructions for the pretty birds card?

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  3. Amelialesley says

    May 30, 2019 at 3:27 am

    The detail is amazing! I love it!

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  4. Gab says

    May 29, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    you are so so talented Sandy

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  5. Sheri Kempke says

    May 29, 2019 at 9:04 am

    Absolutely gorgeous Sandy! I have not ever played with pastels, I have some pastel pencils but haven’t used for awhile and never really was happy with what I did. Using the embossing tool to get more detail is awesome, this would probably work with any softer medium such as the crayons or gelatos type mediums. I also loved the background music, put me in the “mood”.

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  6. Gabriela Suggate says

    May 29, 2019 at 3:40 am

    Wow! Not your usual style Sandy but am loving it!!! Also love the card. Beautiful.

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