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Aurora Borealis with Oil Pastel 

Duration: 1 hour 30 mins
Age Group: 8 -12-year-old
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Prototype by Sinthia Cousineau

Required Materials

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-Large or Medium Mixed Media Paper
-Oil Pastels
-Medium and thin Masking Tape
-White Acrylic Paint 
-Old Toothbrush
-Small Paintbrush
-Q-tips or Cotton Balls


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Project Steps

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Step 1:

  • Tape the border of the paper with the medium masking tape to the table and use the small masking tape to divide the image into 4 parts, which will become the 4 types of skies. 
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Step 2:

  • Add colours that are near each other on the color wheel. For example: a green sky would have turquoise, dark green, light green, and yellow. Or use colours that are monochromatic, such as dark blue, light blue and white.
  • Spread 3-4 colours  per sky.
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Step 3: 

​Use your finger, a Q-tip or a cotton ball to blend the colours together.
Make sure that the white of the paper is no longer visible as you only want to see the colours from the oil pastel.

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Step 4:

  • Create the 4 skies using the different colour combinations.
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Step 5:
Using a black oil pastel and a bit of white oil pastel, add trees to each sky to create a forest under the northern lights.
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Step 6: 
  • Using white acrylic paint on a toothbrush, flick the toothbrush over the drawing and it will add white stars to the sky. 

Step 7:
  • Remove the tape very slowly to avoid ripping the paper.

Your project is now complete!

Student Artwork

Age 8 to 12
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Age 12
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Age 10
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Age 10
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Age 8

Students Working on their Projects

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  • Sinthia Cousineau
    • My Resume
    • Biographie, philosophy et methods
    • My Philosophy of Education
    • Artists that Inspire Me >
      • Claude Monet
      • Leonardo da Vinci
      • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
      • Georgia O’Keeffe
      • Vincent van Gogh
      • Michelangelo
      • Sandro Botticelli
      • Antoni Gaudí
  • Drawings
    • Illustrations >
      • Roman Ruins
    • Ships
    • Self-Portraits
    • Animal Drawings
    • Drawing from Observation
    • Cross Drawings
    • Skulls & Skeleton
    • Fictional Characters
    • Flowers
  • Ceramic Art
    • Functional Ceramics >
      • Bowls
      • Boxes
      • Mugs
      • Vases
      • Containers
    • Molds
    • Animals
    • Figures
    • Decals
    • Violins
    • Abstract & other
  • Paintings
    • Self-Portraits
    • Models
    • Imaginative Worlds
    • Saint-Joseph's Oratory
    • Still Lives & Nature
    • Ruins & Architecture
    • Painters that Inspire Me
  • Photography
    • Cyanotypes
    • Photograms
    • Pin-Hole Photography >
      • Collage & other art Activities >
        • Origami Collage Drawing
        • Lesson: Warm & Cold Motion Figures
        • Lesson: Roman Mosaics >
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        • Art & Adolescence >
          • Mural Project >
            • Door Mural Project
          • Ceramic Mosaic
          • Videos
          • Lesson: Eco Art
          • Lesson: Decorating Fabric
          • Lesson: Zentangles & Patterns
          • Lesson: Social Media, consumerism & war
          • Lesson: Bag Sculptures & Positive Body Image
          • Lesson: Caricatures & political activism
          • Lesson: Canadian Landscapes & Group of Seven
          • Tattoo Art & Meaningful Images
          • Lesson: Stenciling Street Art
          • Lesson: Plaster Figures (grade 7-9)
          • Photoshop Lesson
          • Lesson: Value Scales
          • Lesson Plan: Video Art
          • Lesson Plan: Sound Art
          • Lesson: Landscape
          • Lesson: GIF Project
          • Lesson: Mashup Videos
        • Lesson: Reconstructing Scenery
        • Holiday Art
        • Lesson: Shibori
        • Reptile Zentangle Drawing
        • Lesson: Drawing Lines
        • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Photoshop >
      • Photoshop Lesson: Recreation of Famous Artwork
      • Lesson: Double Exposure
    • Digital Photography >
      • Butterflies
      • Architecture & Cities
      • Ruins
      • Flowers >
        • Dandelion
        • Roses
        • Water Lily
      • Nature
      • Churches & Sanctuaries
      • Objects, Patterns, and other
      • Travel
    • Other Light-based Media Stuff >
      • Lesson: Scanner Self-Portrait
  • Art Education
    • Art Education & Seniors >
      • Lesson: Mandalas
      • Lesson Plan: Zentangle Cards
      • Lesson: Analogous Still Lives
      • Lesson: Eco Collage
      • Lesson: Clay Decorations
      • Other Lesson Ideas
    • Art & Children >
      • Drawing Activities with Kids >
        • Introductory Lesson
        • Symmetrical Name Creatures
        • Tim Burton Portraits
        • Drawing from Autumn Still-lives
        • Aurora Borealis (Acrylic/ soft pastels)
        • Grid Drawing Technique
        • Lesson: Alliteration Drawing
        • Leaf Drawing Collage
        • Collaborative Doodle
        • Drawing: 3D Hands
        • Oil Pastel Dinosaur Landscape
        • Oil Pastel Night Sky
        • Scratch Art Drawing
        • Ancient Egypt Art
        • Lesson Unit: Fables & Stories
        • Lesson: Optical Illusions
        • Lesson Plan: Renaissance Invention Scroll
        • Lesson: La Bande Dessinée
        • Types of Art >
          • Eco Art
          • Symmetrical Name Creatures
          • Kinetic Art
          • Street Art
        • Drawing : Word Art
        • Lesson: Northwest Aboriginal Art
        • Lesson: Paper Puppets
        • Drawing: Hidden Emotions Behind the Mask
      • Painting Activities with Kids >
        • Acrylic Pouring
        • Australian Dot Painting
        • Blow Paint Technique
        • Bubble Wrap Painting: Bee
        • Coffee Art
        • Pointillism Painting
        • Monochromatic Painting
        • Lesson: The Color Wheel
        • Painting: Birch Tree
        • Pumpkin Painting
        • Painting: Rock Painting
        • Squeegee Painting Technique
        • Origami Inspired Painting
        • Watercolor Activities >
          • Watercolor Snowflake
          • Illustrated Watercolor Cards
          • Watercolour Winter Tree Cards
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    • Animation & GIFS
    • Kids: Coloring Printables
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