How to Begin Coloring Faux Stained Glass with Oil Pastels

Hi art students! I am ready to start coloring my faux stained glass with oil pastels. I have elements from nature, more than three in my scene. I have a decorative border and I've broken down my shapes into additional shapes to look more like stained glass. And I've traced my pencil lines with sharpie. To get started, I'm going to choose one area to work on and I'm going to make sure I use at least two colors for a gradient in each individual section. So if I want to begin with my pumpkin here, I might want to choose orange because pumpkins are orange, but I also have to use another color to mix with it. I could use white in some areas and do orange to white. I could use yellow in some areas and do orange to yellow. I could even do orange to red or orange to brown. Let's start with orange to white. I'm going to begin here with some orange on one side. I'm trying to stay inside my lines and I'm trying to make sure that I'm filling in all of the paper. Where I want to layer in some white, I'm going to use less of the pastel. And now I'm going to take my white and I'm going to blend the white on top of the orange where I had less heavy pressure. Now it's mixing. The orange is mixing with the white and I can then continue to apply white until I have a nice gradient from orange to white. So maybe this time I'll start with orange at the top and maybe instead of mixing orange to white, maybe I'll do orange into yellow or orange to white to yellow. I can use more than two pastels if I choose. Let's see what happens if I do orange to yellow and then I can decide if I want to add in some white later on as well. Orange to yellow, putting the yellow on top of some of the orange where I had less heavy pressure. I could always add in some white again too here if I want to. That's helping to create a nice gradient. Now it looks like I've missed some little spots right here of paper so I should go in and add some more orange in that area. I do want to fill in everything fully. All right I'm going to do just one more example. So here I don't want to start with the same exact color or same value again. I want to change it up a bit so maybe I'll start this one with some yellow but my pastel has orange on it so I'm just going to take a bit of my paper towel, clean that off first, that way I can just control the color. So I want to make sure that it's yellow that I'm applying first if that's what I choose. So I'm going to start here with some yellow and once I'm ready to move on to my next color I can grab that. I think I'm going to do orange again here. Now in this case since orange is darker than yellow it's really starting to cover the yellow up and if I need to I can go back in with some yellow again there but maybe this time I'll actually use a little bit of red as well. Red is a similar or analogous color to orange so that's going to blend real nicely together too and kind of create a red orange over here. Okay so you can see how this is going as long as I just take my time. I can work one shape at a time to fill in my spaces. I would probably want to work on the pumpkin first then move on to another object maybe like a leaf. You know that way I can make sure I'm not putting the colors for my pumpkin in the sky or putting colors for my tree into a cloud. I do want to watch what I'm doing and make sure I'm using the colors in the way that I have really chosen. When it's time to clean up today you'll be putting your work on your class label drawing rack. Even though this is not a wet project we want to make sure that our oil pastels are not getting on anybody else's drawings. This is not an assignment you need to rush through. Focus on your work and take your time because we'll be working on this for multiple class periods.