HowTo Draw A Tree in Oil Pastels Part 2

Part two of a free art lesson video on drawing an oak tree with a ten color set of Cretacolor Aqua Stic watersoluble oil pastels on white Canson Mi-Tientes paper, smooth side. For more information and free art lessons in oil pastels, visit http://www.explore-oil-pastels-with-robert-sloan.com or see my other listed videos.

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• tree
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• trunk
• shadow
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• color

[ftlqed]

Color is how I stay with it willy nilly, I used to used texture maps, however, their all not for sale nowadays.

[robertsloan2]

@ftlqed - good idea. You can't go wrong paying attention to color and value. Juxtaposing complements will make them zing, laying them next to each other creates optical blending. Texture is useful too in drawing attention to the main focal area of your painting and drawing it away from the periphery.

[robertsloan2]

Thank you!

Anakoser Facee - If I'm doing background trees I might make them simpler with fewer colors and most of all mass them together. Took me a moment to understand what you wanted - yes, if it's not the main thing in the painting it's much better to make trees simpler. Once I get my video camera up again and get settled I'll see if I can come up with one.

I just moved out of state and don't even have all of my materials with me, so this is not going to be soon. Sorry about that.

[MaRiShOkDeSiGn]

Thank you for this wonderful video it helped me soo much with my art assignment that the teacher did not explain especially since ive never used pastels before thanks so much!

[robertsloan2]

@MaRiShOkDeSiGn - thank you! I'm so glad this helped. Oil pastels are unfamiliar to many teachers, it's an underappreciated modern medium. But they're so versatile, so rich and colorful and easy to use that I love them and know many artists who use them for incredible paintings now!

[timetopay]

Finally....I feel inspired!

I'm gonna try this out :P

[robertsloan2]

Please do! I love seeing what others do with my demos, so message me when you've done the project. Thanks!

[Sercil00]

i can do that even slightly better. the tree on the left, that is.

[MikaIsCritter]

wow, that is good!

[ilIusion89]

this is really great, i luv it

[macwhites]

its sideways not great to look at guvnor!

[beautifulrecovery30]

Great tutorials, thanks.

[anjijane]

wonderful, thank you! i will use with my kids for their art classes!

[sweetairballoon]

Thank you very much, it helped me alot! :D