2nd Grade
How to Draw a Pumpkin:
When you draw a pumpkin you have to remember that they are round. This makes it a little more challenging because you have to show that the part that is closest to you bigger. Remember, things get smaller as they go away from you. So, the sides of the pumpkin are smaller as they go away from you. Because the pumpkin has ridges, we can draw those as lines. When you add color to your pumpkin drawing, those lines will then become shades. So, when you are closer to the lines, you can put darker orange, or even red or brown in there. When you're coloring in the middle of each "oval", you can use light orange, or even yellow. This way of shading will also help show depth in your pumpkin and help it to appear more round!
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How does a pumpkin look overlapping in a pumpkin patch?
We are going to be using Chalk Pastels!Edgar Degas is a famous artist who is historically most connected with pastel. Degas is considered the artist most responsible for its transformation into a major medium. When he began working with pastels, they were primarily used for portraits and often as precursors to complete oil paintings. Degas, however, created a very large body of finished pastel drawings.
He worked in pastel throughout his career and in 1880 it became his primary medium. The artist often combined it with other media such as watercolor, oil, and monotype, creating rich surfaces with a variety of paint qualities applied in complex layers. |
Don't forget, the pumpkin that is closer to you is BIGGER, and they get smaller as they go away. Even if those pumpkins are the same size in real life. This is how we SEE them, not how our brain thinks it should be.
An artist that used chalk pastels a lot was Edgar Degas |