Sep 3, 2012

Oil Pastel on Acetate

I love the way oil pastels look on a sheet of acetate, backed with a nice black piece of construction paper. Paul Klee’s City Picture can a lot of fun to imitate in this style with just a few aids.
1. Download a background grid paper I made HERE. Print on white paper and draw a very geometric stack of buildings. Triangles may be added to the squares, along with one circle moon in the sky.
2. Tape a piece of acetate to the front of the grid drawing and trace their drawing on the acetate with a black Sharpie marker.
3. Flip the drawing over and color in all the shapes with oil pastel. Coloring on the back will keep all the black lines intact, even if you color over them a bit.
4. Lastly, the acetate drawing is placed in front of a piece of black paper (shiny and clean side up, pastel to the inside) and taped with invisible tape. 

4 comments:

CBH said...

Thank you so much for this post. I want to let you know that I posted a link to your blog in CBH Digital Scrapbooking Freebies (please, notice the new url for my blog), under the Page 3 post on Sep. 04, 2012. Thanks again.

emwali said...

I know I have said this before but...I love your work!! It really brings joy to my life and teaching at a school where I teach every subject I have so much and a huge sense of accomplishment when we do your art(which is every week by the way!-2 times a week)

Anonymous said...

Just a question.... is a regular overhead transparency sheet the right type of acetate??

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