Oil Pastel Statues
This series of oil pastel statues was inspired by my high school art teacher’s technique for practicing with the medium. I printed black and white photographs of statues on printer paper, and laid the oil pastel directly on top, using the print as a guide for value.
Medium
Oil Pastel on Printer Paper
Year(s)
2017, 2021?
This is the first piece that had me try this technique again later. High school me was struggling with being queer in a world of anti-queerness, and I put those feelings into what was supposed to just be a quick art class practice shading with oil pastels.
While I am not a man, I wanted to channel what I had witnessed the men around me go through, and I used the creation of this piece to imagine what it must be like to be a man. I focused on Michelangelo’s David again, as he’s often used as a reference for the male physique.
