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1. Intro: Hi, everyone.
Welcome to my class. If you love dreaming
landscape and you want to learn how to create
them using oil pastel, then you are in the right place. Hi, I'm Michelle Guy an
artist and content creator. I love creating soft
dreamy illustrations that feel comforting
and calming. I have been sharing my art
journey online and helping others explore creativity in
a simple and enjoyable way. In this class, you'll be drawing a beautiful
sunrise landscape with gentle color transitions and a cute cozy lock
simple grass field. I'll show you how
to use all pastel to create smooth
gradient of the sky. Soft blending without
using any tools. Just use your finger is enough and layers colors to
bring your landscape to life. First, we start from
drawing the sky. I will show you how to blend different colors mostly to
create a natural gradient. Then move on to
paint the ocean with simple blending techniques
and move on to the tree. I'll show you how to
draw the tree with thin line and
strokes and lastly, draw the grass with
a cozy musical vibe. This class is perfect
for beginner, hobby artists, or
anyone who just want to relax and enjoy
a creative moment. You no need any p experience, just come with an open
mind and have fun and I'll guide you step
by step through the process of building the
landscape using oil pastel. I'm really excited to
create this with you. Let's get started and I'll
see you in the first lesson.
2. Material: This class, there's
only three things we need. First is paper. I recommend paper in somewhere 100-20 grams to
200 grams is the best. But if you don't have
that, it's okay. You can use whatever paper
you have at the moment, or any sketchbook you have. It won't affect the outcome
much like watercolor. Second is oil pastel. I use Mungo Gallery oil
pastel 72 color set. If you have the budget, I recommend this brand, it's a brand from Korea. You can find it online on Amazon or any online
store in your country. If you never tried
I Pastel before or you're not sure you like
this medium or not, you can get the 36 color
set like I did before. I bought it at around USD $17. And if you already have tried I Pastel and you like
to get more color, but don't have much budget, you can get the 72 color set, which you see right now. I bought it at around USD $38 the full color set
is 120 colors, but I personally think the 72 colors is enough for
you to draw almost anything. These are just my
recommendations, but you're welcome to use any brands you like
in this class. The color I'll mentioned in the class is from
this MunoEPastel, but you can find the similar
color of your pastel to use. The last thing you
need is your finger. In this class, we
won't use any tools to blend unless you have the blending tool and
you feel free to use it. But I want to make it as beginner friendly as
much as possible. So all you need to blend
is just use your finger, and maybe you need an
eraser just in case you want to erase some
smudging or mistake. So that's all for the materials, and let's start drawing
3. How to make sky gradient: Now we will directly start
with the oil pastel. We were not using
pencil to draw sketch. Let's challenge ourselves
to just start with the oil pastel to build
confidence to this medium. First, we're going to use sky blue as the first
color for the sky. Use light pressure to paint because we're going to apply the second color
layers after this. Next, use periwinkle blue, which is a dark purple, only apply at the
top of the sky. Then we use back the
sky blue again to apply more color on top of it and
also add some more below it. Next, use light purple
violet under it, but also cover some of
the sky blue color, so it will make
the gradients look more natural when we
do blending later. And Next, we use salmon color, which is beige, apply under the light purple and also
cover some of the purple too. We want to create the smooth, natural colour transition from the blue purple to the
orange, yellow part. I put more purple
between the beach so the gradient will not look
like two separate colours. Then I use pink to
paint after the beach. Remember, don't
apply too much pink. If you apply too much pink, you can put on beige
color to cover it up, so it will lighten
the pink colour. I add more purple at the side because you can see
from the reference, there are some purple
at the left side. Remember to leave space for
the ocean and the grass. Sometimes we are too
focused and carry away by painting the sky and forgot to leave space
for the other object. Next, use pale yellow, which is a very light yellow. Don't worry to paint too much of this color because it's
a very light color. We can always cover up with
other darker color after. So go ahead and paint much
yellow under the pink. Then we use golden yellow to
paint under the pale yellow. Then use back the pale yellow to go over some of the
golden yellow again. Next, also use back the
beige color to paint below the golden yellow
and also on top of it. There are some purple
at the left side, so we're also using the light
purple to paint it here. Then use Big again
to paint below it. This is the part where it
separates the sky and the sea. I think the pink color
is not visible anymore, so I paint again the pink
between the pale yellow and the beach and add more golden yellow between
the pink and the pale yellow. Keep in mind that while we're
painting all the colours, we are using only
light pressure. But in order to blend smoothly, we also need to
make sure we apply enough oil pastel on the paper or it will
help to blend together. I add a little bit
of periwinkle blue, which is a dark purple on here because I think it looked like have more
darker purple here, but I think the color
I put is too dark. So I quickly fix it with
the light purple again.
4. How to blending sky gradient without any tools: Now we are going
to blend the sky. Before we do the blending, make sure your finger is clean, and then we can start
blending the colors. Put your paper as
horizontal way, so it's easier to blend. Let's start blending from the middle where it's
above the yellow color. Move your finger ups and down and slowly blending to
the left side of the sky. If you think the
pale yellow parts got a little bit of smudging, you can paint the color again, and you can use different
finger to blend, so your sky color won't
look dirty and more clean. Then we use the finger, have the light colour, or just use another clean
finger if you prefer. Start blending from
the middle and slowly goes to the
top of the sky. If you accidentally smug the paper color to the
beige color areas like me, don't worry, we can always
apply back the color. But keep in mind which
finger you use for blending. If some parts look
not so natural, like the gradient
look not very smooth, sometimes it's because
the oil pastel was applied not enough. So to fix this, we can apply more oil pastel and try to blend it and see
how it turned out. You can keep doing this until it's reach your expectation. So we have finished the bending. You can use eraser
to erase the edges to make it look more
clean and neat. If you think the pink colour
is not visible enough, feel free to add more to it, or you can just stop at
here and your sky is done. In next chapter, we will
going to paint the ocean.
5. Simple ocean painting: Now we are going to
paint the ocean. Use light purple violet to
paint for the first layer, but don't paint too
much at the right side. Then use pink colour to
paint the right side. Also paint in light pressure. Then use sky blue to add a layer at the left
side of the ocean. Make sure the pink
and the purple have crossed over to each other, so the transition of the gradient will look
more smooth and natural. Now, we are going
to do the bending. Turn your paper in
horizontal way again, use your finger to blend it, move your finger from up to down and repeat until
it's blended naturally. Lastly, use pink to lightly draw a thin
line on the ocean. Only draw at the right side. Then use periwinkle blue, which is the second color we use at the beginning
when we paint the sky. It's a dark blue, also draw a thin line on the
ocean on the left side. Then use light purple to tone it down and also like
blend it a little bit. Make the pink and dark purple
line connect together, and your ocean is done.
6. How to draw trees in thin lines: In this chapter, we're
going to draw the tree. We don't need to draw all the tree details like
in the reference. We only use a dark green color to represent the of the tree. The dark green color I'm
using here is most green. We just have to roughly draw
out the shape of a tree. Let me break it down
with color pencil. So the shape of the tree is
an inverted triangle shape. So first, we just draw a
vertical straight line. Then we start to draw
out the branches from the straight line and adding small leaf
on the branches. Keep in mind, make it
in a triangle shape. So now let's try
with oil pastel. The tricky part here
is we have to draw thin line as thin as possible. So use the edge of
your oil pastel or any pointed angle of
your oil pastel to draw. I know it's not easy to
draw these tiny details. If you want to practice draw at the side first,
feel free to do it. When you use oil pastel to
draw the leaf on the branch, when you use oil pastel to
draw the leaf on the branch, you can just apply pastel
like dot, dot, dot. Do not worry that
you'll mess it up. We don't trace for perfection, then it's better
than perfection. So you can draw a tree like
some of the tree is shorter, some is longer or smaller. Try not to draw it
in all same height, so it will look more natural. No. For the center part, it looked like some
bushes in the reference. We can just draw
some messy strokes. Try to leave a bit of
white gap in between, so it's not look like just
a whole big part of green. Then we continue drawing the tree with the same
techniques like before, and the tree is complete. In next chapter, we will
draw the grass field, and we'll finish the drawing. Uh
7. Layering Grass: Now we are going to
paint the grass. We start from the
light green first, which is light olive, paint from top to bottom. Vary your pressure
while painting. Try to leave some blank space for the yellow orange glass. Next, we use yellow to start
draw the yellow grass, apply on the areas
that we live just now, but don't cover
all the white gap. Then we use dark green, which is more screen. Go back to the grass,
the green grass. We are adding more
depth to the grass. But don't add too much, only apply to the shadow areas. So mostly apply at the bottom
and some at the middle. Then we use light olive to
soften the dark green a bit. Then we use a light orange, which is golden yellow to add on the yellow grass
we draw just now. There are still some white gap, so I'm using light olive
to fill up the gap. At the same time,
the dark green looks like got torn down
by the light olive, so I add back the dark green again so the grass
not look too flat. And your painting is done, you can name your
painting at the bottom, put your signature down, write down the date, and tell them, I'm so
proud of you make it here. No matter how your
painting turn out, please give yourself
some compliment and tell yourself you have done a great job and you finish
the drawing. You are amazing. I will look forward to see your artwork in the project section. I encourage you to take my other oil pastel classes if you want to create more
oil pastel painting. Thanks for taking my class.
Michelle Gooi, Traditional Artist
