Oil pastel lessons middle school

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Macro Photography Study in Oil Pastel

Although the materials are nothing like that of real wax-resist batik, the look is similar with wide, flowing outlines. Many of us were unsure of how this would turn out but we definitely surprised ourselves! Beautiful work 7th graders!

Landscapes are one of our favorite projects in 7th grade, especially when we use take a more abstract approach when creating them. This project was based off a popular method we've used here. However, this time we used both oil pastel and chalk pastel and the results were dramatic. Before the pastel goes on, we outline our landscape drawings with glue to create a fluid and bold outline. The glue dries black (since we use black construction paper) and very bold. A couple of students…

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…

Try out this super easy and fun way to create colorful line drawings using oil pastels and a paper transfer technique.

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