Oil Pastel Easy Scenery Drawing: A Beginner's Guide

Hello everyone, I'm Elizabeth, an Italian artist, and welcome to this beginner-friendly class where we'll explore the world of oil pastels and landscape drawing. As a watercolor artist myself, I fell in love with oil pastels at some point in my life, and I can't wait to share their versatility and ease of use with you.

Before we dive into our main project, let's start with an introductory exercise that will help us understand the basics of background, middle ground, and foreground. We'll also get familiar with the vibrant colors of oil pastels, which allow for easy blending and incredible results.

For this class, I've prepared a reference image that you can use to draw your own landscape. Don't worry if you're new to drawing; no prior experience is required. However, I recommend taking my Beginner Class about Food Sketching before diving into this course.

In today's class, we'll learn the basic rules of landscape drawing and some important tips and tricks to help you paint your own landscape in oil pastels. We'll focus on creating an illusion of depth by carefully representing light and shadow, blending pastels for organic texture and color variation, choosing cooler values for the background, darker values for the foreground, and dividing our subject into layers.

Oil pastels are a fantastic medium for beginners because they're easy to use, fun, and versatile. Did you know that with oil pastels, you can create lovely landscapes? Let's get started!

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