Many-Colored Hands

I’ve found that students new to oil pastels often need to be guided to use them to their full potential, namely layering them. This project can be a good practice as they will be able to see that brown pastel colored over gold, for example, makes a completely different color than gold colored over brown.

1. I plan on making cardboard hand templates for my younger students as I know how awkward tracing hands can be for some. Their instructions will be to trace as many hands as they can on a piece of paper, all of them just touching each other to create lots of closed spaces. No overlapping!

2. After the hands are traced in pencil, the lines are traced with a fat black Sharpie marker.

3. The hands are colored in with oil pastels, using as many combinations as possible. My sample uses peach, golden brown, medium brown, pink and white in different layers.

4. Lastly, the closed shapes around the hands are colored with different pastels.

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