Description
Pastels can be so much more than glorified crayons—they’re an expressive and versatile medium capable of creating rich, painterly works of art. In this pastels homeschool art course for teens, your students will go beyond basic chalk drawings to explore the classical and modern pastel techniques used by the great masters.
Designed especially for middle and high school students, this homeschool pastel class helps young artists learn the fundamentals of pastel painting, including color blending, layering, and composition. Through easy-to-follow lessons, your teens will gain confidence while experimenting with soft pastels, hard pastels, and oil pastels to create beautiful, expressive artwork.
In this course, we’ll explore:
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Soft Pastels, Hard Pastels, and Oil Pastels
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How to mix and layer colors effectively
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The techniques behind light, shadow, and texture
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How to learn from famous pastel artists through hands-on master studies
With over 30 step-by-step lessons, your teens will experiment with techniques such as:
Line Strokes • Side Strokes • Blending • Mixing Mediums • Scumbling • Feathering • Overlays • Broken Color • Underdrawing • Underpainting • Charcoal & Pastel • Building Up • Sgraffito • and more!
In Pastels 101, we’ll study and recreate works by master artists including:
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Edgar Degas
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Édouard Manet
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Edvard Munch
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Berthe Morisot
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Frederick Childe Hassam
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Odilon Redon
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Pablo Picasso
By the end of this pastel painting course for homeschoolers, your teens will have developed both their technical skills and their artistic confidence—learning to see the world in light, color, and texture, just like the masters before them.
*** Please note: These courses are recommended for students ages 13 through teens. A moderate level of drawing ability is required. Only you know the abilities of your own children, so if you have younger ones who want to participate, you can make that call. These lessons will be more advanced than our other art courses in that they will encourage the students to draw upon their own inner resources (no templates will be provided). The purpose of these courses is to launch your child into the world of art so they can take these very basic skills and soar with them! ***
Upon purchase, you will receive LIFETIME ACCESS to this course.
The downloadable delivery and forever access of this product makes it non-refundable.
Individual courses are for personal family use only; sharing among families or co-ops is not allowed. Thank you for adhering to our policy.
