Oil pastel high school art projects

Macro Photography Study in Oil Pastel

Check out student artwork posted to Artsonia from the Oil Pastel Leaf study project gallery at Conway High School.

Projects done by high school students in painting classes.

I rarely show all the students pieces for each assignment, but I got lucky this time cuz they were so small and I was able to fit them into my lens :) For the last 2 months I have worked my beginning drawing/painting students realistically, so that by 4th quarter they need a change of pace. I introduce a variety of color media and in this particular unit we are working with oil pastel. For their preliminary pieces they had to simply move their foreground, background and sphere from light to…

With these oil pastel animals I wanted the students to learn about the golden ratio in their compositions, how to draw on an enlarged grid and how to blend colors to create value.

Click on the links below to access lesson plans for projects this semester. Lessons will be added after they have been introduced in class.

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Students began this lesson by creating a series of individual pencil drawings of leaves, flowers and other plant life. Using a light table, we then created a large composition on watercolor …