Today we experimented with watercolors (a favorite language for both of us) and oil pastels . Would they mix? If yes, how? If no, why not? How do these materials work together? “I brought all of my materials right now. I’m going to start to work, and you will organize your materials.” - Saul
The watercolor won’t stick to the oil pastel lines? - Elyse “Oh, it keeps moving around. Maybe it’s just silly watercolors. Why don’t you use oil pastels to make it not move.” - Saul You can use oil pastels to keep your watercolors in place. It’s called resistance. - Elyse “I made it [oil pastel] a little bit wet to make the watercolor still and not move.” - Saul A little bit of water does change the texture. - Elyse “That’s what we’re trying. I really want to draw with the side [of the oil pastel].” - Saul “I’m taking the paper from the oil pastel because it makes it easier to draw.” - Saul Looking at other artists who have drawn fire with oil pastelsA framed image“I thought you might make a rainbow fire. A fire rainbow. You have to use the oil pastel to make the fire.” - Saul
Is there fire on top of the rainbow? - Elyse “Yeah. Don’t forget that we have to make a fire picture, but we can’t feel it because it’s flat. Fire pictures are flat.” - Saul “We have to make the frame of the picture because it’s a picture of fire. We can’t even feel the fire because we’re drawing it.” - Saul [There was a gap in his frame] “There’s only one more oil pastel to add.” - Saul “I made my frame. Now I’m going to put inside all of the paper to make the fire. Don’t forget the little pieces. It’s a picture of a fire! The paper was the fire. It’s a hot picture.” - Saul [started dropping the oil pastel papers into the middle]
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One of the many goals of the Brown Room year is to explore new tools, techniques...languages. Recently, I realized that we had never used oil pastels together, and there are so many wonderful possibilities for them. Personally, my favorite technique is to blend them, but as we discovered, there are quite a few things you can do with watercolors to represent your imaginative ideas. “I brought my pastel colors. I counted them and they are twenty.” Sauly, one thing we can do with oil pastels is blend them. - Elyse “Blend them? In a blender.” - Saul “Red really, really, really works.” - Saul It is very bold. Very bright. - Elyse “Everywhere I go, the red goes. I’m making a volcano. Now I’m drawing a volcano. I don’t know if volcanoes are good enough fire. Fire is most in a dragon. The fire that is coming out of the volcano is fire, fire. I don’t know if a dragon is going to be a fire measure. I don’t know if the volcano is enough red. I’m drawing it all over my paper.” - Saul Is all of that red the fire from the volcano? - Elyse “No, even more is hiding inside of the pastel.” - Saul “I’m making it all over the place fire. It’s not exploding. Now the fire is turning itself into one big house.” - Saul “I’m making all of the fire from the volcano. The fire stopped shooting. It took a rest.” - Saul I think I’m going to add a sun to my volcano. - Elyse “Why? To make it more dry? ‘ - Saul Well, I was hoping to blend my orange and yellow. My favorite thing to do with oil pastels is to blend them. - Elyse “I don’t like to blend them, I like to make them into fire.” - Saul The Sun“Well, I don’t know about his yellow sun, but yellow suns do not have any time so I turned it in to a blue sun. They don’t have any time to turn into a yellow sun. They have to turn into a blue sun.” - Saul Sauly, how does time change the color? - Elyse “Well, I made a rainbow.” - Saul Can you tell me more about how time changes the color? - Elyse “The blue is making the sun. It’s turning the fire into sun.” - Saul How do you make fire into a sun? - Elyse “You add yellow to it. This is the sun! Look! Look at the sun! I know the sun because you can’t eat the sun because it’s just a picture of the sun.” - Saul Could you eat the real sun? - Elyse “Noooo…it’s not the real sun. It’s just the picture of the sun. You can’t eat sun.” - Saul Can you imagine how hot it would be? - Elyse “It would be hot in your mouth.” - Saul “I made two pictures on the one piece of paper. One is called the sun and one is called the fire. The fire is under the sun. Now you can’t see it because it disappeared. You can even draw on the back [bottom] of the pastel.” - Saul [top right photo he is showing both sides] Black PaperSwitching to black paper really altered the way the colors popped from the paper.
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