Here's a picture of the first piece I did using the oil pastels in the technique that I'll explain....
This cool piece took amazingly little time. Here's how I did it. Using a piece of 6" square bristol board, I randomly colored the entire paper with vibrant colors using oil pastels. When I had the paper covered, it looked like this:
The next step was VERY simple.....I used the black oil pastel to cover the entire page...
When I had the entire page covered, I place a stencil on top and clipped it in place...
I then used a pointed wooden tool to begin scraping the black oil pastel away, revealing the color beneath....it was like magic watching the colors appear!
And here's what the finished butterfly picture looks like...
Cool, huh??? This would be a great project to do with kids or with people who think they're not "artists".....anyone can make this color magic!
Have fun!
Deborah
