Surprised: Tiger In A Storm

This week in art we were doing more work on the painting Surprised: Tiger in a storm. We were carrying on with out drawing from last week, but this time we were starting to use the oil pastels.

We had to make sure there was no white showing on the picture and then we had to look closely at the painting to see which shades of colour they used. We had to use different shades of pastels to make them blend together better (eg. if i wanted it to fade from yellow to green, I would use darker and lighter shades of each colour so they submerge together).

Another good technique to improve my work, was smudging the pastels together. This helped blend the other colours together better to make it look like it's flowing through and the colours are mixing together. It also helps to cover up the spots that you've missed on the paper. Smudging pastels can also come in handy because they create different layers and textures to your art work. If you use a lots of pastels on one part and then smudge them over to a blank part of the paper. This will make the colours darker and make it so there's less pastels on that part, which will make it look lighter.

In Art This Week

In art this week we were all drawing the painting Surprised: Tiger in a Storm. Our art teacher split the painting into 24 pieces and each person in the class got a section to draw. Once we had gotten our piece of the painting we had to draw a few guide lines on it to mark halfway so that it was easier for us to draw the painting as big as it needed to be. Once we'd drawn the rough outlines of our drawing we had to use oil pastils to colour it in. We had to make sure we used different shades and to be sure that we have blended it in well enough to not see any white from the paper and to make each colour run into eachother. We will be carrying on with this next week too.

Surprised - Tiger in a storm

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