Create Travel Postcards With Oil Pastels

discover a creative and unusual way to share your travel experience by creating travel postcards with oil pastels

What you'll learn

sizes and materials to use for postcards

how to design the postcard

find your travel inspiration

choose the perfect reference photo

create our own postcards with oil pastels

Requirements

sturdy watercolor paper, oil pastels, scissors, tape, ruler

Description

In this class, discover everything to know to create and send your own travel postcard with oil pastels. Travel postcards are an exciting way to share your travel experience with your friends and family. Moreover, it's a very creative and unusual way to share your experience and impression of the place you are visiting!When it comes to creating your own postcard, it is important to ensure that your creation is fit to go through the mail. Because you will certainly decide to send it through the postal service. And you can easily do so, as long as it's cut to the right dimensions. In this course, I will share the important guidance to prepare a card for your creative postcard. Then we’ll create 4 different postcards. I’ll walk you through the process of drawing each postcard and I'll also share my reference photos so that it will be easier for you to follow the process. In the demonstration part of the class, I'll be using oil pastels. But you can use any medium you want to draw your own postcards.You will learn:sizes and materials to use for postcardshow to design the postcardfind your travel inspirationchoose the perfect reference photocreate our own postcards with oil pastelsAt the end of this class, you’ll be able to create gorgeous travel postcards using oil pastels. It's a perfect opportunity for you to learn a new exciting way to share your travel experience in a creative way. Tools and materials to use in this class:sturdy watercolor paperoil pastelsscissors, tape, ruler

Overview

Section 1: Introduction To Travel Postcards

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Class Overview

Lecture 3 Tools & Materials

Lecture 4 Inspiration

Lecture 5 Postcard Requirements

Section 2: Creating Travel Postcards

Lecture 6 Preparing The Surface

Lecture 7 Postcard From Madeira: Memorable View

Lecture 8 Postcard From Marseille: Simple Composition

Lecture 9 Postcard From Barcelona: Simplifying The Details

Lecture 10 Postcard From Venice: Being Creative

Section 3: Final Thoughts

Lecture 11 Project

Lecture 12 Final Thoughts

This class is for anyone who wants to learn how to create travel postcards with oil pastels, no previous experience needed.