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Peacock Oil Pastel

The peacock is the National bird of India. It’s certainly one of God’s most beautiful creatures, and even young children can make these wonderful pictures. We provide you with step by step drawing tutorials, as well as instruction on using oil pastels to bring your peacock to color.

This tutorial is split into two parts:

Materials:

Cardstock or Pastel Paper
Oil Pastels
Pencil and Eraser
Black Line Marker
(Sharpie is fine)

Suggested Resources for a Unit Study:

Art Project Tutorial:

Part 1: Drawing Your Peacock

Prep: Drawing Your Peacock If you haven't already, visit this page in our site for step by step photos on drawing you peacock.

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Step 1

Be sure that you've completed your peacock drawing, then get out your pastels! We use Crayola Oil Pastels which you can purchase much cheaper on Amazon, especiall if you have prime.!

Step 2

Blending involves finding different hues of colors. Use your lightest green, medium green, and light blue and color the top part of your peacocks body.

Step 3

Use your medium blue and your turquoise blue and blend your way down your peacocks body. Notice that we're leaving white space at the top of each hump.

Step 4

As you go down, your colors should be getting darker. Use dark blue and end with purple. Remember that your strokes should be up and down, vertically. Use your finger to blend if needed.

Step 5

Use gold and light orange to blend on the beak. The light orange should be used near the center and the bottom.

Step 6

Use red to fill in those little circles on top of your peacock's head.

Step 7

Use your medium blue and fill in the middle of your lopsided hearts. You're just filling in the middle, leave some open near the top and the bottom of your lopsided heart. If you made your hearts small then don't worry too much about that blank space.

Step 8

Use your purple to fill in the bottom blank space. If your area is small you can color directly over the bottom blue.

Step 9

Use your medium green to color in the main heart.

Step 10

Add a little bit of light blue to the bottom of that green, and blend with your finger.

Step 11

We are using light yellow, peach, light orange, and brown. Use your finger blending technique for each outer heart.

Step 12

Start with your light green, then medium green, then light blue, start adding streaks of color to your feathers.

Step 13

Start with your light green, then medium green, then light blue, start adding streaks of color to your feathers.

Step 14

Use your finger to blend the colors slightly. Complete all feathers in this way

Step 15

Here is how your peacock looks when complete! You can use a different color to fill in the background if you like.

Peacock Oil Pastel

This tutorial is split into two parts:

Materials:

Cardstock or Pastel Paper
Oil Pastels
Pencil and Eraser
Black Line Marker
(Sharpie is fine)

Suggested Resources for a Unit Study:

Art Project Tutorial:

Step 1

Near the center of your paper, draw an upside down rain drop

Step 2

Draw two slightly curved lines from the head down to the bottom of your paper

Step 3

On each side of the body, make cloud like humps from the head down to the bottom of your page.

Step 4

The center of the peacock's feathers are heart shapes. You want to draw hearts where ever you want feathers. Make sure the pointy part of your hearts point towards you peacock.

Step 5

Here is a shot so you can see the hearts all pointing to the peacock. Some of the hearts are sideways, it helps to turn your paper as needed.

Step 6

Draw lines from the pointy end of the hear to the body of the peacock.

Step 7

Go back to your heart and add another heart around it

Step 8

Here is a shot of how your drawing should look now.

Step 9

Now go back through all your hearts and make a lopsided heart inside each of them.

Step 10

Starting near the top of the heart, draw a curving line down to the shaft of the feather. Draw more lines always starting just a bit lower then the previous line.

Step 11

Repeat these curved lines for the other side of the feather.

Step 12

Here is a photo of all the feathers when they are finished. As you get better at drawing the curved lines you can add little waves at the top just like peacock feathers.

Step 13

Go back to the "clouds" that you drew alongside the peacocks body and add small, rounded diamons along the sides.

Step 14

At the bottom of your peacock body draw cloud humps all the way across.

Step 15

Draw your second layer of cloud humps. NOTE: You want your humps to land on the peak of the previous rows humps. Look at the photo to see where to land

Step 16

Continue adding layers up your peacock body. Once you get the hang of it, start to make them smaller as you go. See how the humps at the top are much smaller. Leave a space before you reach the peacocks head.

Step 17

Draw four lines and four circles on top of the peacocks head. Then draw a circle eye, with a lopsided heart in the center.

Step 18

Use curved lines to make the markings on your peacock's face. When complete, you can use a black marker to trace over your pencil.

Part 2: Oil Pastel

Your peacock is finished, it's time to use our oil pastels to really bring your peacock to life!

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Tiger Eyes Oil Pastel Tutorial

July 9, 2013 By Valerie Mcclintick 3 Comments

We are getting tons of use from our Crayola Oil Pastels.
I’ve purchased other pastel kits in the past, but I love the amount of crayon you get with this set. They are so much thicker and have lasted us much longer.

Plus they are nice for little hands.

Amazon currently has them for $3.88 and free shipping as an add on for Prime
I highly recommend them!
They are wonderful quality, and produce stunning results: