Oil Pastel For Foundations

Ms. Urioste’s Foundation to Art Class

Have your border will become part of your art work

• You could use a natural setting to surround your living subject as both the border and the pattern behind it.

What environment can your living subject be surrounded with?

PatternPattern is the repetition of elements like a checker

board , stripes or shapes in the background.

First, find a living subject that you can draw in oil

pastel .

Putting it all togetherPutting it all together

You can use the living

subject as a design that interlocks with the

border and patterned

background like a

tessellation .

• Decide on whether you are using black paper or a colored paper.

Find a resource of a living object that you can use as a reference. You will turn in your resource picture in with your rough draft drawing.

Do not trace - try to draw the subject .

Student work Examples

From Fall 2008

Foundation Classes

Using graphic transfer paper, take your rough draft drawing and transfer it to your colored or black paper.

(repeating an idea creates emphasis)

Taylor Anderson, grade 9

Decide whether you want it to

looks like stained glass with a black

outline or not.

Romi Rankin, senior

• There needs to be highlights and shadows in all areas of your drawing so that every thing has form (not flat colors that are just shapes).

Jeanine Duong

Combine colors together to make your own palette of colors. Don’t just use colors right out of the box.

Cheyenne Dunham

Have your color blend into each other creating a transition from

one color to the next.

Brian Bernard

Claudia Garcia Tiffany Gallegos