TECHNIQUE 2: Mondrian Trees - Oil Pastels with Baby Oil

Not too sure if this looks like a Mondrian tree....

PROCEDURE:
1. Discuss with students how Mondrian's tree paintings changed in style from realistic to abstract. Large images of artworks to view with a laminated information sheet for each student.
 





2. Discussion about how Mondrian applied the paint to his artworks - thick, lumpy, directional, etc.
3. Materials: A3 watercolour paper, lead pencil, no erasers allowed, oil pastels.
4. Students will be issued with a Resource Image on which they will base their own Mondrian-style abstract tree.
 5. Issue to students a sheet of A3 floro cardboard.
6. On the cardboard, they are to draw a tree using the Resource Image as inspiration. have students draw big and with a continuous line. This will stop them from rubbing out all the time and create continuity in the their technique.
7. Students will need to select ONE COLOUR with its tones. I used blue and tones of blue.
8. Colour in the background around the tree. Students can start with white and graduate the tones as they work out towards the edge of the cardboard, or they can do the reverse.
9. With a paint brush that has stiff bristles, student paint lightly over the oil pastel. They should use tiny amounts of baby oil of the tip of the bristles. If they use too much oil, the pastel tends to dissolve and disappear. Using tiny amounts of baby oil allows for the texture of the bristles to be captured in the oil pastels.
 
10. Wait for the baby oil to dry a little before proceeding to the next Step.
11. With a black oil pastel complete the tree. It is important to leave some of the floro colour coming through and not over work the black pastel. DO NOT put baby oil on the black pastel.
12. OPTIONAL: Place random lines on the tree branches with a posca pen. White or any colour. DRAG the tip of the posca pen along the branch to create a disjointed and random line. Make sure to clean the tip of the pen regularly.

 

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