Oil painting group

I haven`t done very much oil painting, well not as much as I`d like anyway, so when I was invited to join an oil painting group, I jumped at the chance.
Yesterday was the first time I went, and I have to say I throughly enjoyed every minute of it.

Sunsetting over South Sheilds.

14x 18 " on stretched canvas,

watermixable oils.

I was quite pleased with how this turned out, especially seen as it`s only about the 4th or 5th ever time I have used watermixable oils.

Other paintings that I`ve done this week are below.

Cross eyed Robbie.

I love how his eyes were crossed in the reference photo, he was so cute. I`ve been meaning to do this painting for over a year and finally got round to it this week. It took less than 2hours to do.

8x8" square

Using a selection of pastels.

On M. Tientes pastel paper.

I also painted the following portrait in pastels.

It`s nothing like my usual style, but the tutor in life class gave us our instructions, and I "just went for IT", lol.  I picked up any colours that took my fancy whether they matched or not. I don`t think it`s very good, but I enjoyed the process of doing it.....which is what art is all about.