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Exploring Oil Pastels

Watercolor experimentation

For colored exploration, I used colored pencils, oil pastels, markers, and dry markers. I absolutely love d how oil pastels blended and I wish I have use d more of them in my practice as an artist. Because I really liked oil pastels my art piece was mostly oil pastel, but I decided to also add colored pencil to tone down the subject matter prior to adding on oil pastel. Oil pastel was very strange to work with, but in the best way possible. I love how creamy and thick it is,

We are making a flag book, where the spine is accordion-like. Materials needed: 2 pieces of paper for spine of the book, 2 cardstock pieces for the covers. 2 pieces of pretty paper for the outer cover. Glue, scissors, pen or pencil, sticky notes. Take one of the papers that you have chosen for the spine, fold it in half. Don't forget to fold both ways for maximum flexibility! Then continue folding in the halves on one another The result should look something like this! Please

My experimentation with charcoal began by doodlign and scribbling with different types of charcoal. For example, vine, compressed, powder, pencil, and various graphite pencils. I would alternate it heaviness of my hand and mark-making, combining crude marks with soft, blended ones. For my art piece I decdied to use a little paper and then I drew a tiny landscape of a yurt in the steppe.

Documentation of my crazy book for class.