Philip Edward Harding

Free form oil pastel works and some spacial studies in oil pastel and colored pencil.

All are from the late 1980's to the late 1990's.

Title: Wing

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Arches Cover black

Size: 28" x 42"

Date: Finished in 1991 or 92. The original signature and date are not legible and I didn't re-sign it when finished.

Price: $950.00 (unframed)

 

Title: Garden

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Arches Cover black

Size: 30" x 44"

Date: 1992

Price: $950.00 (unframed)

 

Title: Flight

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Canson's black

Size: 28" x 42"

Date: 1991

Price: $950.00 (unframed)

 

Title: Untitled

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Canson's black

Size: 20" x 28"

Date: Early 1990s

Sold

 

Title: Untitled

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Roma blue

Size: 19" x 25"

Date: late 80s or early 90s

 

Title: Unauthorized departure

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on black paper

Size: 13" x 38"

Date: 3/5/88

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Canson's black

Size: 19" x 25" (framed in 28" x 34" thin black metal frame with double mat)

Date: 1995

Price: $700.00

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Arches cover black

Size: 22" x 28" (framed in 28" x 34" thin black metal frame with double mat)

Date: 1995

Price: $700.00

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Canson's black

Size: 19" x 25"

Date: 1995

Price: $450.00 (unframed)

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Arches cover black

Size: 22" x 28" (framed in 28" x 34" thin black metal frame with double mat)

Date: 1995

Price: $450.00 (unframed)

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Canson's black

Size: 19" x 25"

Date: 1995

Price: $250.00 (unframed)

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Canson's black

Size: 19" x 25"

Date: 1995

Price: $250.00 (unframed)

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Arches cover black

Size: 22" x 28" (framed in 28" x 34" thin black metal frame with double mat)

Date: 1995

Price: $700.00

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Arches cover black

Size: 22" x 28" (framed in 28" x 34" thin black metal frame with double mat)

Date: 1995

Price: $700.00

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Arches cover black

Size: 22" x 28" (framed in 28" x 34" thin black metal frame with double mat)

Date: 1995

Price: $700.00

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Arches cover black

Size: 22" x 28"

Date: 1995

Price: $450.00 (unframed)

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Canson's black

Size: 9" x 12"

Date: 1995

Price: I still own this but can't find it and thus can't offer it for sale.

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil and oil pastel on Canson's black

Size: 9" x 12"

Date: 1995

Price: I still own this but can't find it and thus can't offer it for sale.

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil on charcoal paper

Size: 14" x 20"

Date: 1995

Price: $40.00 unframed

 

Title: spacial study

Media: Colored pencil on charcoal paper

Size: 14" x 20"

Date: 1995

Price: $40.00 unframed

 

 

In the late 1980s and early 1990s I took several of my earlier drawings of spheres floating in deep space created on a drafting table with traditional mechanical drawing tools and skills and completely reworked them with oil pastels. The results are brightly colored expressionist works unlike anything else I had ever done.

Then in 1995, in a move related to the same impulse to move beyond the more mechanically designed works and improve my ability to draw spacial or volumetric forms freehand I created a set I have since referred to as my "Spacial Studies" series. It was an experimental series where I would begin each work without any clear idea of what I was after beyond some large volumes. I would start by using dark brown colored pencils as I filled the page with loose messy gestural drawings until a series of volumes emerged. I would then bringing those volumes out and solidify them using oil pastels until they felt right. As one might expect not all of them turned out and some of those shown here are kind of borderline but they all have something I think is worth keeping.

   
   
   


 

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