Oil pastels are versatile, easy and fun! Did you know you can draw a lovely landscape with them?

In today's class, you will learn not only the basic rules of landscape, but some important tips and tricks to paint your own landscape in oil pastels:

To divide your subject in layers; background, middle ground and foreground
To choose cooler values for background, darker values for foreground
To blend pastels in order to achieve an organic texture and colour variation
To give the illusion of depth through careful representation of light and shadow

We will start with an easy exercise to get familiar with landscape technique. I will then take you in detailed steps through our final project:

This course is an easy, beginner friendly introduction to both oil pastels and landscapes. No prior experience is required! However, I suggest you to take this class after my Beginner Class about Food Sketching.

The landscape is drawn from a reference image that I will provide in the resources section.

I can't wait to sketch with you! Grab your pastels and join me!

Rinoa De Leon

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