Warm up and getting to know oil pastels

Every one gets one 5.5 piece of bristol board

It has a mark in the upper left hand corner

telling you orientation and number

Using oil pastels, draw a bird.

Color the bird warm,

the background cool

and the branch darker

Patterns are predictable and repeatable

Texture is random

Both may be tactile

Text

Texture

Pattern made of Texture

Texture

Texture

Texture

Cool colors appear to recede

Warm color appear to come forward

Make rubbings

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Template

Landscape

Cubist

Samples of the Template works.

Notice the color schemes, warm/cool

Samples of the landscape method follow.

Notice how the black breaks up the negative space so that there are closed sections to put patterns into.

DO THE BLACK LAST!!!!!

I said: DO THE BLACK LAST!