Transcripts
1. Intro : Thank you for joining
in and welcome to another Skillshare class. This class is all
about Oil Pastels. So you will learn the
basics and how to use them. I will go over some
blending techniques and how to layer colors
on top of each other. We're going to create
this beautiful landscape here with a nice Lake
View and some lily pads. I'm going to learn how
to create the trees and different compositions here with the mountain range
and the depths. This tutorial is very
easy for beginners. And also these can be easily transformed into postcards
in greeting cards. So they can be used for
multipurpose says as well. So let's jump right
in and get started.
2. Getting Started, Sky & Water pt1: First up, I'm gonna
start to pick out a couple of different
shades of blue here. In my set. I have an aqua blue and
then a lighter aqua blue, cobalt blue, and then one that's a little
bit darker, cobol. So I'm going to start off with my lighter, aqua blue first. And I'm just gonna go ahead
here and make a horizon line, line for the mountains here
so you can see it better. I have a very light pencil
drawing near to start with. But once we get this
mountain line in here, then we're going to start
with the Sky first. As I'm continuing to
fill in the sky here, I am going to leave some
of the white for clouds. And then I'm going to blend
it through with the white. As I mentioned in a few of
my other Oil Pastel videos, you can feel free to use
whatever blenders you have. If it's the clear
blender or one of these little things that
you put on your finger is just like a silicone
piece of rubber there. Or if you have the
traditional paper stumps, whatever works best for you, or you can just use
your finger as well. But I'm gonna go ahead
here and blend all that blue and mix it in
with that white area, just so everything
is nice and smooth. With my little bit darker blue. I am going to just
make another line here and that's just where
the water is going to be. So I have this separation between the mountains, the land, and then the water, which is the, it's actually a
lake that we're doing here. So I thought it would be interesting to add a
little bit of purple in with the water just to just to add a little bit
more color and like I said, to make it a little
bit more interesting. So that will be mixed in
with our shadow areas. So right now we're just
doing the blue and white and then the light purple
and some of the corners. And I am starting off light first just to see how everything is going
to blend together. And then we will be adding
second layers and a bit here. For the Cloud area. I am sprucing them up a little
bit here with the white. And now I'm going in
circular motions. So you can see it is definitely changing the shape
of the clouds. So you can leave them that it wispy if you want
or if you want them more puffy like a
traditional Cloud and then try using
the circular motions for the areas with the land. And this was somewhat
of a beach area. I have like a light
peach color that I am mixing with some
dark burnt umber. Whatever Brown you
have will be fine. And then I am mixing
those together. And then I will add some
olive green as well for some of the bushes and then trees that we're
going to put on later. Some nice neutral tones. The other side here, there is also a piece of land and then a tiny
one in the middle. So we're gonna do
the same thing, just the same three
colors blending through and then adding a
little bit of our greenery. When using your paper stump, you can do the circular motions again to make it look
more like shrubs. Or you can push up if
you wanted to stick up straight more,
looking like grass
3. Mountains and Water pt2: For a little bit more of a shadow area in the
corners and the sky. I'm going to use that
same light purple and just blend it through
here just a little bit. And then it really
brings the picture altogether and it has
a lot more balance. I did go ahead and I outlined
the mountains so you can see them a lot better now I just used my brown and some green. So that was the burnt
umber and the olive green. And I'm going to
mix a little bit of gray in with the
mountains as well. I'm going to start off
with the darkest one here, with the burnt umber
mixing through the olive, with some of the gray blend, all those three together. For the second mountain here, it was a lot lighter in
my reference photos, so I'm just going to use the olive green and mix
some white in through it. And I'm gonna do the same thing
with the other ones here. But this last one is
going to be the lightest. I am going to go back
and forth between my burnt umber and
the olive green, just adding a few more
details here and there. Adding a little
bit more contrast. So things stick out a
little bit better here. And you can see the
different land formations where some of the extra
bushes and grass would be. Just a few details. On the bottom. I am going to fill in a few of the lily pads that
were in the water. I'm starting off
with a let's see, the name of my green was
peacock, green pale. And I am mixing that
with the olive as well. So as long as you have
a light green and dark green, blend them together. And then we will be putting
the lily flowers on top too. With just some white and
a tiny bit of yellow. With my lighter cool ball, I am going to go
ahead and put in some shadow areas looking to see what matches
up here with the sky. And then we're gonna go ahead
and blend that through. Make sure to always clean
your tips with your white, especially if you do a
lot of blending with it. But these lily pads
are really easy to do. You're just going to
push down and press up and create a few strokes
there for those easy flowers. And then just a tiny bit
of yellow in the center. With my darker blue, I'm going to create just a few little ripples around some of these lily
pads in the water
4. Trees & Details pt3 : One of our last steps here, I'm going to use that burnt
umber that we've been using. And I'm just going to
put on a few trees. We have a pretty big
one here on the side. I'm just going to start off with the straight line here and
then add the branches. Just going to wiggle
back and forth, just keeping it nice and easy. Then I will mix some olive green that we've been using
in through here as well. For some extra greenery. I'm going to push down a little
harder and then lift up. And then again with the point of your
blender, you can start, start to make some
wispy grass pieces, or you can make them even look, make them longer if you want
them to look like those. What do they call
the cotton tails and those really long pieces of grass that you see in ponds. So you can feel free to play around and have
some FUN with this, just creating some extra little
greenery here and there. And lastly here I just wanted
to add a little bit more of my deeper blue in
with these clouds. So I added some shadow areas here just to make them stand
out a little bit better. And then we're going to
blend them through gently with my paper stump there. And that is it for
today's tutorial. I hope that you did enjoy it. I also have a few other
Oil Pastel classes. If you're looking
for more Fine ideas, they are more food-related. And I have a seascape
BG scene as well. And I'll see you next time.
Suzanne Kurilla, Art with Suzanne
