Introduction to Oil Pastel
PD-Class | Available
Oil pastel allows you to blend colors and work with effects similar to paintings, but with the practical approach of a crayon. Working from photos, learn how to prepare surfaces, design compositions, and use various oil pastel techniques to blend, layer, scrape, and soften this material into amazing works of art.
Please wait to purchase your own materials AFTER THE FIRST CLASS when I will explain more about them.
Oil pastels look like crayons but are quite different. They are not waxy but creamy, using oil as the main binder allowing for beautiful blending, rich colors and smoother surfaces, similar to painting. There are softer oil pastels and firmer oils pastels with different binders and pigments which can affect their blending ability.
Pastel Paper Pad 11x14 (Watercolor, Bristol paper, or illustration board can also be used if primed with gesso first)
Oil pastel set with minimum 12 colors
Gesso (optional – ONLY if not using Pastel Paper)
½” flat brush
Paper blending stumps, a few toothpicks and cotton swabs
Painting metal spatula for scraping (optional)
Fabiola Hansen
An experienced and multi-faceted art educator, Fabiola Hansen is a welcomed inspiration to students of all ages that she teaches through Summer ArtCamp, and the outreach programs offered by Crealde School of Art, including the Hands-on-Art Sampler Classes at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center and Easter Seals Day-break Program at the Miller Center in Winter Park. Hansen earned her B.A. in Art Education from the University of Central Florida and has been teaching at Crealde since 1998. Throughout the years, Hansen has continued her own art studies, taking courses in Brazil, Italy and the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. She has exhibited her work in art galleries throughout the United States and Brazil. Locally her work has been exhibited at Casselberry City Hall, Orlando Science Center and Barnett Bank.
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