Botanical Drawing With Oil Pastels For Beginners

oil pastel drawing of the flowers for beginners

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

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 drawingchoose flower reference with more simple shapes and less detailsuse a limited color palette to create a simple minimalistic drawing of buttercupsFor 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!

Overview

Section 1: Drawing Buttercups

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Your Project

Lecture 3 Tools & Materials

Lecture 4 Drawing Buttercups

Lecture 5 Final Thoughts

Section 2: Drawing Poppies

Lecture 6 Introduction

Lecture 7 Your Project

Lecture 8 Tools & Materials

Lecture 9 Drawing Poppies

Lecture 10 Final Thoughts

Section 3: Drawing Cornflowers

Lecture 11 Introduction

Lecture 12 Your Project

Lecture 13 Tools & Materials

Lecture 14 Drawing Cornflowers

Lecture 15 Final Thoughts

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.