Thursday, 3 February 2011

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.