Day vs Night
Oil Pastel Drawing

Age: 5 to 8 year Old
Time: 1.5 Hours
Technique & Medium: Oil pastels, blending, warm and cold colours
Themes: Dinosaur landscape, castles, trees, sun, and moon

"Dinosaur Day vs Night Landscape" by Sinthia Cousineau

"Tree and Castle Day vs Night" by Sinthia Cousineau

Classroom Set-up

Project Steps

Warm-up Activity

Step 1: Design a warm/cold colour wheel as a warmup (25 minutes)

Main Activity

Step 2: Tape the border of the paper to the table to create a frame and divide it in half with a tape. 

Step 3: Draw your idea for day on the left side and night on the right side using a HB pencil.

Step 4: Retrace the pencil lines with a black sharpie and erase pencil marks.

Step 5: Add the warm colours to the  left side and the cold colours to the right side. You can use black and white to create darker and light tones of the colours. 

Note: Use Q-tips to blend the colours so you do not see the paper anymore.

Step 6: After retracing over liens with a black oil pastel and adjusting small details, gently remove the tape.

Step 7: Add mod podge to the image with a paintbrush and wait 5 minutes for it to dry

Students creating their Artworks

Student Artwork

Pointe Saint Charles Art School, fall 2023

Student Age 6

Student Age 7

Student Age 7

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Student Age 6

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Student Age 6

Students at Art Neuf 2023

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