We explored soft pastel and oil pastel today, as well as pastel papers and card. Our subject matter was vegetables. We practised with really seeing the shapes and dimensions of the vegetables, double checking that the shapes that we had drawn were the same shapes that we were really seeing with our eyes. We then looked at colour, texture, light and shadow.
We also did the ‘Thumb & Penny’ experiment, where we get back in touch with our binocular, or stereoscopic, vision; this practice really helps us to see the depth of the objects in our world, and can assist us when drawing what we see around us.
Thank you everyone, for a fun, and messy, session!
