Oil Pastel Techniques

Impressionism

• Impressionism – capturing a moment, light and color,

rapid brush strokes, unmixed color.

• Post Impressionism - The Post-impressionists had learned

about using light, shadows, and colors in their art from the Impressionists. They wanted to add their own new ideas to art. They began to try new subjects, techniques, perspectives, and shapes to express their thoughts and emotions in art.

Vocabulary

• Hatching – small dashes

• Pointilism – small dots close together

• Pastel Resist – Painting with watercolor over oil pastels to achieve a resist technique

• Scratching/Sgraffito – using a tool to scratch in to oil pastels

Requirements

• 3 Landscapes or Seascapes

• Two MUST be hatching and pointilism

• Third will be sgraffito or watercolor resist