Botanical Drawing With Oil Pastels: Cornflowers

1. Introduction: What makes this class unique? It's the combination of the tenderness of the flowers and oil pastels with their naive and unpredictable nature of mark-making, we will learn to merge those two styles together to create a series of simple yet and expressive oil pastel, botanical drawings. Hi, my name is Alina amen, Ukrainian artists. And if you have been following my classes for awhile, you already know about my love to oil pastels and flowers. I haven't decided once again, to combine those two passions of mine and create this botanical drawing course with oil pastels. This course will include several short glasses. Let Will I post each week and every time together we will create a drawing of different flowers. This is the third class of these botanical course. So far, we have already created two gorgeous botanical drawings of bodies and butter cups. If you haven't joined the first two classes just yet, I invite you to do so, so that your collection of botanical oil pastels will be full. Today in this class, we will be drawing blue corn flowers. I love this lover so much, and I'm so excited to be joining them together. First, we'll start by looking at inspiration and reference photo for drawing. And next, we will simplify the reference photo to fit our naive and simple style of the trauma and the oil pastel features. Finally, we will develop our base layer by layer. This class is probably best suited for beginners who have no experience with oil pastels and for anyone who likes creating botanical drawings and wants to try out such a unique medium as oil pastels for the total beginners and also for who's, who wants to follow in this class step-by-step and create the exact same drawing. I have created a coloring of the final result. So you can download and print it out in black and white and simply apply your oil pastels on top of it. By the end of the whole course. Not only you will learn to depict the beauty of lovers by using oil pastels. But you will also have a whole set of your own botanical drawings. So make sure to follow me so you don't miss any class. Your collection of botanical drawings before. 2. Class Project: Your project for this class is to create a drawing of corn farmers using oil pastels. For that. First, choose your reference for the drawing. Here are several ways for you to do it. The first and perhaps the best option is to just the reference I will be using in this class. By using the same references me, it will be easier for you to follow me through the drawing process and to create the same botanical drawing. Another option is if you want to choose your own reference for it, you can look through the Pinterest board I have created for this class. You will find some of the best reference photos, or you can conduct your own research and choose the reference photo. You will see what's the best for you. Finally, I would love to see what you have to share with us. So please don't forget to upload a picture of your class projects. Once it's done. 3. Tools & Materials: In this lesson, Let's go over some tools and materials we will need for this class to create our botanical drawing of corn fibers. So the medium for today's class and this whole course of botanical drawing is oil pastels. There are only four oil pastel pigments that we will be using today in this class. Those are yellow, brown, olive brown, ash blue, and pale blue. You don't have the exact same colors. That's not a problem at all. You can always find the closest analog to them among the colors that you have at your disposal. Next, we will need paper. You can use watercolor paper or sketchbook for our botanical drawing. And in case if you use watercolor paper, you might also need masking tape to fix your paper to the surface. Those are the suppliers that we will need in this glass. As usually the list is pretty short. Sale, if you have any questions regarding art supplies or anything at all, feel free to ask me in the discussion section. 4. Drawing Cornflowers: So let's start out drawing by placing three main buckets right away. Here, I'm using oil, brown oil pastel, but you can replace it with any other similar darker green oil pastel pigment whenever you have at your disposal. And just like that, we define the size and composition of our future drawing. So once you have placed to the first buds, we can now add actual petals to them. For petals, I'm using the pale blue oil pastel, one-by-one. We are going to add petals here. And as you do so, look closely at your reference photo to catch and recreate these unique nature of cornflower petals. Speaking of the reference image, I'm very satisfied with the image I have found. So I don't even think that there'll be any modifications needed for the drawing. I like the placement and the form of the flowers. And this reference image is just for perfect for me. So you can usually draw with me from the same reference image. Or you can go to the Resources section of this class where you will find a link to the Pinterest board with even more images of corn flowers that you can use as a reference for your drawing. Now, once we have finished adding the petals to our garden flowers, we can switch to the steps. Here you can use yellow brown oil pastel or any other lighter green oil pastel. We can also add more buds and some leaves or some grass to the drawing as we go by using the same oil pastel color as we layer or the pigment. We do it by using light pressure. Because our next step will be layering and other darker oil pastel pigment on top of it. By doing so, not only we will be able to add more color to the drawing, but also we will add more contrast and texture that will make our botanical drawing more complex. Finally, now we can move forward and add the final touch to our botanical drawing. So we've finished our simple minimalistic drawing by layering ash blue on top of the flower petals to add more highlights to them. Just be careful not to overdo it, not to overlay the ash blue, the lighter blue over the darker blue. Because we want both of the oil pastel pigments to be seen in our drawing. Just like that, our botanical drawing of corn flours is finished as usually in this course, like we did it with the butter cups and the thread puppies. We have combined the tenderness of the flowers with the expressive mark-making of oil pastels. We have created a beautiful botanical drawing by using limited color palette of just for oil pastels. And it turns out to be perfect, ready to be framed and hangs on the wall. And for the final thoughts, I will see you in the next class. 5. Final Thoughts : Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed this class and you're happy with your blue corn flowers. I just loved them. As a reminder, this was our third class of the whole course of botanical drawing with oil pastels. And guess if you miss two of my previous classes, make sure to check them out so you can learn how to draw red potteries with oil pastels and yellow butter cups. If there is any flower you really want me to include in this course, please let me know in the discussion section and maybe this is gonna be our next project. Finally, I would love to see what you have to share with us. So please don't forget to share your project with us once it's finished. Thank you so much for joining me in this class and I will see you next week.