Fruit studies I did using #carandache water soluble pastels! No water tho bc I'm in class ^^

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A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. Several cattails with brown furry spikes stand on the edge of a glistening lake. Several stalks have been bent and broken by the wind. On the far shore is the hint of more cattails along the edge of the water.

July 13, 2025 #rollandpaint

Plant on grey tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Brown + Ochre, plus neutrals

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A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A large, very round, yellow bird stares straight at the viewer, it’s large black eyes glistening, its grey beak wide open. Its belly is covered in white feathers. Above, the branches of a tree spread across the painting.

July 12, 2025 #rollandpaint

Bird on grey tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Emerald Green + Ochre, plus neutrals

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A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A green chili pepper sits on a brown wooden table top. Its stem is pointing to the right and has a sharp turn near the end. Light is reflecting off the top of the pepper. Behind the chill and table is a mottled brown gradient background.

July 11, 2025 #rollandpaint

Fruit on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Emerald Green + Brown, plus neutrals

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A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. Several monstera leaves. The two in front are large and yellow. The leaves behind them are green and smaller. Behind them is a mottled sky blue background.

July 10, 2025 #rollandpaint

Plant on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Cobalt Blue (hue) + Ochre, plus neutrals

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A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. Two strange snake-like creatures wind around the page. Each has a single large eye at the end of a skinny noodle body. One is black and surrounded by a blue & white aura. The other is brown and has its eye nestled into a curve in the the aura of the other creature. Behind them is a dark stoney background.

July 9, 2025 #rollandpaint

Abstract on brown tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Cobalt Blue (hue) + Brown, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A blue sky with clouds sits above rolling hills. The furthest hills are dark green. Each hill gets lighter the closer it is to the viewer with the lightest in a pale blue grey in the foreground.

July 8, 2025 #rollandpaint

Natural Landscape on brown tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Cobalt Blue (hue) + Emerald Green, plus neutrals

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A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A red apple sits on a table in front of a hazy purple background.

July 7, 2025 #rollandpaint

Fruit on brown tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Purple + Ochre, plus neutrals

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A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. Two steep purple-grey barren rock mountains form a V through which distant brown mountains can be seen. Between the two barren mountains, in the sky, the sun glares brightly in a dusty yellow sky.

July 6, 2025 #rollandpaint

Natural Landscape on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Purple + Brown, plus neutrals

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A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A road runs diagonally from the bottom left corner across the page. Along its side is a railing, bright with sunlight. About halfway across the page, a second road branches off to the bottom right corner of the painting. Along this road is a low purple building with its facade in shadow. Along the first road are many buildings: three green lowrises, a pinky-purple low rise, several dark grey high rises, and one high rise with a turret. In the foreground is silvery water. In the sky, a fluffy white cloud.

July 5, 2025 #rollandpaint

City Landscape on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Purple + Emerald Green, plus neutrals

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A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A massive blue bird with a purple belly and purple streak on the top of its head takes up most of the painting. It’s facing left and is shown from the side. It’s short grey beak is pointed slightly upward. Its large black eye gleams. In the distance are greenish-grey mountains. Above, a couple of puffy white clouds float in the sky.

July 4, 2025 #rollandpaint

Bird on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Purple + Cobalt Blue (hue), plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #bird #birdArt #birdPainting

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. Overlapping wavy areas of pink-purple & ocher that start light at the top right corner and get darker as they move to the bottom left of the painting. First is a pale pink section in the top right that’s covered in concentric dotted and solid lines. Next a light ocher section that contains a dark circle that’s surrounded by expanding ocher dashed lines. Within the dark circle are concentric white dashed lines. The third section is muted purple that becomes a reddish brown where it overlaps the next mossy green section. The mossy green section has a few areas that are covered in small dark green circles. Where they intersect there is a series of white lens shapes, each with a red dot resembling an eye. They arch through the overlap. The final section is dark purple with a large light pink-purple circle that contains a bright pink & grey spiral.

July 3, 2025 #rollandpaint

Abstract on grey tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Purple + Ochre, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstract #abstractArt

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A cross-section of a dragon fruit. It’s many bracteoles extend from the fruit’s oval body. The tips of the bracteoles are brown. They get pinker as they reach the vibrant pink outer layer of the fruit. Inside the fruit is white dotted with tiny dark brown seeds.

July 2, 2025 #rollandpaint

Fruit on grey tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Purple + Brown, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #fruit #dragonfruit #pitaya

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A close-up portrait of a clump of lavender. The flower stalks are various shades of dusty purple. Their stems are green with with thin pointy leaves.

July 1, 2025 #rollandpaint

Plant on grey tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Purple + Emerald Green, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #lavender #lavenderPainting

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A thin crescent moon hangs over the ocean. Behind it, the sky is pink, purple, and blue as the sunset fades into night time. Near the top of the painting, a few stars are visible. In the foreground is a silhouetted finger of land stretching into the water. In the distance is another bit of land near the horizon.

June 30, 2025 #rollandpaint

Natural Landscape on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Purple + Cobalt Blue (hue), plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #landscape #landscapePainting #sunset

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. At the bottom of the painting, a large orb, its top half purple, its bottom half sepia gray. Its surface is textured with small circles. A smaller circle, white on top and purple on the bottom, spans the centre line of the orb. A multitude of sections fan out from the right side of the orb, filling the the painting above the orb’s centre line. They are black, pink/purple, dark pink/purple, white, and bright pink. Along some of the dividing lines between these sections are diamonds or circles.

June 29, 2025 #rollandpaint

Abstract on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Purple + Violet, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstract #abstractArt #abstractPainting

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A single sunflower against a blue background. It faces to the right. Its many yellow petals shift to deep reddish orange as they near the centre of the flower. Part way down its thick dusty green stem is one large, slightly curled leaf.

June 28, 2025 #rollandpaint

Plant on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Scarlet + Ochre, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #sunflower #sunflowerArt #sunflowerPainting

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A brown building next to a taller red brick building with a rounded side. The brown building has several rows of windows on one side. Some windows are bright with light, while other are dark. The red brick building has three horizontal ridges of darker brick near the top. Between the bottom two ridges are dark circular windows. Above, the sky is growing dark and the full moon hangs in the sky.

June 27, 2025 #rollandpaint

City Landscape on brown tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Scarlet + Brown, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #cityLandscape #city #landscape

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A portrait of a green parrot with a red beak and red ring of feathers around its neck on brown mixed media paper.

June 26, 2025 #rollandpaint

Bird on brown tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Scarlet + Emerald Green, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #bird #birdArt #parrot #parrotArt

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A close up still life of several blueberries. The top-most blueberry has it’s blossom end visible. Two blueberries are fully visible with four more partially visible, filling the bottom two-thirds of the painting.

June 25, 2025 #rollandpaint

Fruit on brown tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Scarlet + Cobalt Blue (hue), plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #fruit #stillLife #blueberry #blueberries

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. Overlapping mountains fill the bottom half of the painting. In the foreground, a dark red pine tree stretches from the bottom left past the tops of the mountains into the hazy brown sky. Above, the sun is burning through the haze.

June 24, 2025 #rollandpaint

Natural Landscape on brown tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Scarlet + Violet, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #landscape #mountains

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. Against a night sky, red-purple skyscrapers are reflected on the surface of gently moving water. Above, the full moon hangs in the sky.

June 23, 2025 #rollandpaint

City Landscape on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Scarlet + Purple, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #cityLandscape #cityscape #reflection

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. From top to bottom: - a deep yellow semi-circle with a black ring surrounded by black & white dots, - a white lens with an orange ring filled with concentric black and dark orange rings, - a greenish-grey semicircle with a small black circle, and - a pale orange semi-circle with a white arc interrupted by a small orange circle

June 22, 2025 #rollandpaint

Abstract on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Orange + Ocher, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstract #abstractArt

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A close-up study of the bark of a ponderosa pine tree. Deep dark brown crevices vertically split the mottled bark.

June 21, 2025 #rollandpaint

Plant on grey tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Orange + Brown, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #ponderosa #poderosaPine #bark #closeUp #tree #treeArt

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A green bird with an orange beak look back over its shoulder while standing on a tree branch.

June 20, 2025 #rollandpaint

Bird on grey tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Orange + Emerald Green, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #bird #birdArt

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A deep blue sea bordered on the right by a series of cliffs and hills. Above, the sky is pale blue and slightly hazy. In the foreground, a dark hill slopes down towards a small cove where the waves are breaking on a small beach.

June 19, 2025 #rollandpaint

Natural Landscape on grey tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Orange + Cobalt Blue (hue), plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #landscape #seaside #ocean #cliffs

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. The moon hangs in the air over a city scene. The sky is a purple and yellow-orange gradient. On the left side of the painting is a tall purple skyscraper. Its facade is extremely modern with a dark band at the very top and dark horizontal bands at each floor. On the right is a more ornate yellow-grey building, with tall arched cutouts and a flared roof edge. In the foreground is a shorter yellow-grey building with decorative horizontal stripes and arched windows.

June 18, 2025 #rollandpaint

City Landscape on grey tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Orange + Violet, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #cityscape #citylandscape #landscape

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A pink flower with many petals and bright yellow orange stamens blooms at the end of a slender deep green stem. On that stem are several long pointed leaves. Another shorter stem with a bright pink bud that’s just starting to open is to the right of the first flower.

June 17, 2025 #rollandpaint

Plant on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Orange + Purple, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #floral #flower #flowers

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. Angular, translucent shapes in light orange, red, and brown overlap on a blue background. They are outlined with thick black lines. There are three white circles at the top right, middle, and bottom right of the circle, also outlined in black. One is above the other shapes, one is overlapped slightly by the orange shape, and the last is overlapped by all three shapes. The top-most circle is mostly on the red shape and has two concentric red rings around it and one white outer ring. The left side of the orange shape has more saturated orange stripes, while it’s lower portion has saturated orange dots. The bottom left corner is covered by the red shape and has many pale pink lines that converge at a single point. At the end of each line is a large dot.

June 16, 2025 #rollandpaint

Abstract on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Orange + Scarlet, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #abstractArt #abstract

A painting made with Neocolor II water-soluble pastels. A ripe, speckled banana on a dark background. It’s not quite at the banana bread candidate stage.

June 15, 2025 #rollandpaint

Fruit on blue tinted mixed media paper

Neocolor II: Orange + Scarlet, plus neutrals

#neocolorii #neocolor #waterpastels #watersolublepastels #pastels #painting #art #artYear #artSky #OnlyBeautifulThings #fruit #banana #ripebanana