Artistic Abilities: Pastel Sunset

Artistic Abilities: Pastel Sunset

This weeks drawing is a drawing I did about 7 months ago at my art class. So first I chose the picture I wanted from Google Images. I then printed it out and took a piece of tracing paper and I traced the cactus and hills. I then, took pastel paper and sketched out and drew out the shapes. Once I got the shapes in, I took out the pastels and started working on the sunset. The sunset has many different colors and shades. First, I started with the lightest color I saw, and started from the top and made my way to the bottom. 

Tip: Start from the top and work your way down to prevent smearing and smudging the pastel.

The process, to finish the whole sunset, took me about a month and a half. I go to art once a week so it took me about 6 weeks to complete the  colors and shades in the sunset. Once, I got all the shades and different colors into the sunset, I began to use the black pastel for the cactus and hills. Putting the black makes the picture pop.

Tip: Every few steps you finish, take hairspray and spray the picture to make the pastel stay on.

Tip: You should put the black pastel on last so it does the smear and ruin the sunset or other parts of the picture.

 The last part of the picture I completed was to take a yellow-orange color and do the small sun showing on the bottom, on top of the hill.

This picture took overall about two to two and a half months.

This is the final product of the picture I completed in art class.