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Botanical Drawing With Oil Pastels For Beginners
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Botanical Drawing With Oil Pastels For Beginners

oil pastel drawing of the flowers for beginners
Created byAlina Hаrvi
Last updated 1/2023
English
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What you'll learn

  • merge the tenderness of the flowers and the naive, expressive nature of oil pastels into simple minimalistic drawings
  • use limited color palette of oil pastels to create minimalistic drawing
  • draw from a reference image and modify it as you draw
  • create three minimalistic oil pastel drawings of buttercups, poppies and cornflowers

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Course content

3 sections • 15 lectures • 39m total length

  • Introduction2:38

    Learn to create simple, expressive botanical drawings with oil pastels, starting with buttercups. Reference and simplify photos, then layer techniques in beginner-friendly, step-by-step lessons.

  • Your Project1:04

    Create buttercup drawings with oil pastels by selecting a reference, either using the instructor's reference, or choosing your own from the Pinterest board, then upload your finished project.

  • Tools & Materials1:38

    Discover the essential tools and materials for botanical drawing with oil pastels, including Sennelier pastels, gold, yellow, olive brown, and yellow brown, sturdy white watercolor paper, masking tape, and napkins.

  • Drawing Buttercups7:58

    Choose a simple reference image from a Pinterest board and draw buttercups in a minimal palette, using gold yellow petals and yellow-brown stems and leaves.

  • Final Thoughts0:51

    Celebrate your final buttercups drawing in this first botanical drawing with oil pastels class, and share your work in the discussion by uploading a photo for the next wildflower project.

Requirements

  • oil pastels, drawing paper

Description

Welcome to the course on botanical drawing with oil pastels!

In this course, you will learn to merge the tenderness of the flowers and the naive, expressive nature of oil pastels into simple minimalistic drawings. This course will include several short classes, and every time together we will create a drawing of different flowers.

We’ll start by looking at inspiration and reference photos for our drawing, and next, we will modify the reference image on a go to fit our naive and simple drawing style and the oil pastel features. Finally, we will develop our botanical drawing layer by layer.

In the first part of Botanical Drawing course we’ll start by drawing yellow buttercups — gorgeous wildflowers famous for their shiny yellow petals. Next, we’ll continue with the second part of the course by drawing red poppies — gorgeous wildflowers famous for their shiny red petals. Finally, we’ll finish our course with the third mini-class by drawing blue cornflowers — popular and unusual wildflowers we all love.

Your project for this course is to create three drawings of buttercups, poppies and cornflowers using oil pastels.

  • start by looking at inspiration and reference photos for your drawing

  • choose flower reference with more simple shapes and less details

  • use a limited color palette to create a simple minimalistic drawing of buttercups

For the total beginners, and also for those who want to follow me in this class step by step and create the same drawing, I have created a coloring of my final result. You can download and print it out in b&w and simply apply your oil pastels on top!

Who this course is for:

  • This class is best suited for beginners who have no experience with oil pastels and for anyone who likes creating botanical drawings and whats to try out such a unique medium as oil pastels.

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