Art Project #45: Oil Pastel Resist Leaves

Ian chose this oil pastel resist painting for today's art project.  But once again with these resist type of activities we were a bit disappointed in our results.  Our colors were not nearly as bold as those shown on the original site we were following.

I'm not sure what we're doing wrong or if we just weren't fearless enough with smearing on dark black paint but it's pretty frustrating when our results are not what we expected them to be.  We're learning a lot through this 100 Days of Art Challenge.

To make our oil pastel resist leaves we needed:

• Leaf shapes to trace
• oil pastels
• watercolor or heavy duty paper
• black tempera paint with water and brush

I found some printable leaves and printed them on cardstock.  I cut them out and the boys were encouraged to trace a few of them onto their papers.

Once they had them traced we colored them in using oil pastels.  We used a few colors per leaf and yet we wanted to keep a few white spots inside the leaves. 

When we were done coloring I showed the boys how they could add vein lines inside their leaves if they wanted to. 

Once we were all done coloring we used some black tempera paint to color over our paintings.  Straight black seemed too dark and covered up the leaves entirely so we watered it down a bit and watched the paint bead up off of the oil pastels. 

Unfortunately as the black paint dried it turned more gray and we didn't get those dramatic color popping results we were expecting.  Luckily the boys liked their final projects anyway and had fun with the whole process. 

Our other art projects:
Project 1: Painting with Hexbugs
Project 2: Tissue paper flowers
Project 3: Star Wars Crafts
Project 4: Watercolor compass circles
Project 5: Floral pens
Project 6: Watercolor outlines
Project 7: Scratch art jellyfish

Project 8: Oil pastel flowers
Project 9: Fingerprint dandelions 
Project 10: Beaded Sun Catchers
Project 11: Bird Crafts and Snacks
Project 12: Color Mixing Butterflies
Project 13: Water Gun Art 
Project 14: Using Watercolor Kits
Project 15: Dragonfly Silhouette Paintings 
Project 16: Painting Pet Rocks
Project 17: Spray Paint Resist 
Project 18: Water Bottle Windsock 
Project 19: Stained Glass Kits 
Project 20: Tin Can Windsock
Project 21: Firework Glue Art
Project 22: Qixel Art
Project 23: Makit Bakit Kits 
Project 24: Wood Burning Project 
Project 25: Making Our Own Raft
Project 26: Spray Painted Canvas
Project 27: Paper Bowl Jellyfish 
Project 28: Tin Foil Art
Project 29: Oil Pastel Bubbles
Project 30: Chalk Pastel Paintings 
Project 31: Washi Tape Votive Holders
Project 32: Drip Painted Pots
Project 33: Sun Art 
Project 34: Tissue Paper Transfer
Project 35: Stained Glass Class
Project 36: Visiting the Art Museum 
Project 37: Taking an Art Class
Project 38: Making Minecraft T-shirts
Project 40: How to Draw Books
Project 41: Wax Resist Watercolors
Project 42: Splatter Paint on Canvas
Project 43: Fine Line Fall Leaves Drawings
Project 44: Fairy Village Trip