Botanical Drawing With Oil Pastels: Poppies

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. I'm an Ukrainian artists. And if you have been following my classes for awhile, you already know about my love to oil, pastels and fibers. I have 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 that will I post each week and every time together, we will create a drawing of different flowers. This is the second class of this botanical course. Last time we have created a drawing of beautiful yellow butter cups. So in the case, if you miss this class and how, you can check it out as well. And today, we will create another oil pastel drawings over the wild flowers. And this time it will be puppies. 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 drawing and the oil pastel features. Finally, we will develop RPs 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 h2s. Wants to follow in this class it 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 new class. Your collection of botanical drawings. 2. Class Project: Your project for this class is to create an oil pastel drawing of red poppies using oil pastels. For that. First, use your reference for the drawing. Here are several verse for you to do it. The first and perhaps the best option is to choose 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. 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 you will need for this class to create a botanical drawing. The medium for today's class. And this whole course is oil pastels. And same as in the first class of this course. Today I will be using my favorite oil pastels of Sennelier brand. These are probably one of the best and well-known or oil pastels you can find on the market. They are soft and creamy with reach and bright pigment. There are three oil pastels we will be using today in this class. Gold, yellow, oil brown, and permanent red. You don't have exact same colors. Don't worry, just find the closest analog to them among the colors that you have at your disposal. Next, same as in the previous class of this course. You will need the paper. In this class I will be using white watercolor paper. Make sure that the paper you're using a sturdy enough for oil pastels. And finally, you might need some masking tape to fix your paper to the surface. So those are the supplies I will be using for this class today. If you have any questions regarding art supplies or anything at all, feel free to ask me in the discussion section. 4. Drawing Poppies : Let's start our drawing by looking at inspiration and choosing the reference images first. We can also draw your puppies from your memory or your imagination. This approach might make your drawing experience more personal and more authentic. Still, I find that working with the reference photos can give you more confidence, and especially for beginners. So I have put together a Pinterest board with some of the best options for you. On my opinion. You will find the link to this Pinterest board in the projects and resources section. So don't hesitate to check it out. And so here's the reference photo I chose to use in this class. And this is gonna be the great example of how they can modify the reference image for the drawing, because the final result is going to be slightly different from the reference photo. So let's start. I believe it's the best to start with Bloom of the puppies. It will help us to define the overall composition and size of our botanical drawing. My suggestion is to start small so that you can modify the size of the fibers if you need to, and to get coherent and natural size of your flowers. As I'm working with the reference photo, you can already see me modify it a little bit as I go. And so can you e.g. as you can see, I decided to put the flowers closer together. I encourage you to modify your reference image as you need to and not to feel obligated to create the exact same copy. After all, this is your creative work, so don't put yourself in a box. Let your creativity and talent bloom with your flowers as neutral. Next, let's work on the stamp of our flowers. And here I'm using oil, brown, oil pastel. The sense of puppies are usually kind of fluffy and I would even say a bit chaotic in their shape. So I'm trying to recreate it in my drawing as well. To create a thin line, I'm using the opposite flat side of my oil pastel stick. And to show more texture of the stem, we can add a little bit more pressure as bilayer or the pigment to the paper. Now, how about we add some tiny, cute little bars so we can see on the reference photo. As you could notice, I have modified this part of the reference image as well. It's more important to us to create coherent and harmonious logos, the drawing so that the flowers and the bugs, they belong together here in the drawing. And we like the result. Oil, brown, oil pastel pigments to draw the stems. We are overlapping it with poppies, lend some oil, brown pigment on top of red To add to that dark central that we see on puppies. Now we can move forward and add some leaves to the flowers. And here we keep on using oil brown pastel stick. This is another good example of how we modify the reference in this class. Because there are actually no they use in the image that we have here. Still, as I look at the drawing, I really feel that it likes some details and it made me want to add some leaves here. And now we can finish our simple minimalistic drawing by layering some yellow brown on the top of leaves and some steps just as a finishing touch. Once again, if you don't have the exact same pigment of your oil pastel and you don't have yellow brown oil pastels at your disposal. You can simply use yellow oil pastel, warm yellow or yellow ocher. Anything that you have at your disposal. Bi-layer in some yellow on the top of oil brown. And so this is our botanical drawing of puppies is finished. We have combined tender purpose with the expressive mark-making of oil pastels. We managed to create beautiful drawing by using such a limited color palette and by modifying our reference photo as well. I just love how it turned out to be. It makes me want to frame it and to hanging the other wall. You can do the same with the botanical drawing, by the way. And for the final thoughts, I will see you in the next lesson. 5. Final Thoughts: Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed this class and you're happy with your read Buffett's, I just love how they turned out and it was so simple to create them. So this was our second class of the whole course of botanical drawing with oil pastels. Last week we have created oil pastel drawing of yellow butter cups, and it turned out to be gorgeous. So if you miss this class, make sure to check it out as well. Next week we will create a drawing of another beautiful wildflower. So make sure to follow me so you don't miss it. If there is any flower you want me to include in this course, you can write me in the discussion section, and perhaps 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 upload a picture of your class projects and show it to me and your fellow students. Thank you so much for joining me in this class today and I will see you next time.