Video: How to Draw the Foreground & Background in Pastel Art

Learn how to draw the foreground and background of a pastel drawing in this free video art lesson.

Video Transcript

I’m going to finish showing you a little bit about composition and this is what we were talking about before, the fore-ground, which is the closest thing to you, here, the fore-ground and then you can have something a little bit farther away, in this case this could be, I know this is not a painting, a picture, I’m just showing you levels of things that could be somewhere. This is maybe a level of some acres of flowers, rows of flowers, and then behind that, there might be a hillside, which this doesn’t really depict a hillside very well, but lets just say there might be a hillside with trees, behind the flowers and then here we have the sky which at this point because its all black it might as well be night, and so here you have some stars in the sky and maybe an outline of the hills, you could make a silhouette of the hill lines and then you could make yourself a big ole moon back here, you could throw on some clouds and that would be the upper part of your canvas or your paper. We’ve shown you a little bit about composition, foreground and then you could have two middle grounds and then another layer of the upper half of your paper and then the top. That is the end of composition. Please check out our segments on the use of pastels, how to clean them and different facts about the pastels and tools that you use.

How to Draw the Foreground & Background in Pastel Art

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