Fresno Christian’s first-year art class takes their seats and works on their new projects with oil pastels. Art teacher Vickey Belmont assigns her students the task of oil pastels, picking a famous artwork and recreating a small part of the image while also resizing it to make the image larger. The student is supposed to recreate a 4×4 section of a piece of artwork made by a famous artist. This learning form is referred to as a “Master Study”. This type of learning has been done for centuries. The purpose of this project is for students to learn different ways to blend, experiment with various blending techniques, and discover the importance of using paper with ‘tooth’ to apply oil pastels properly.
Sophomore Elijah Tuck joined art class for the first time, thinking that the class would be simple and easy but found studying the masters was a bit tricky. He has found joy in learning new techniques.
“This is my first year in art class. I usually do art outside of school, but I never heard of oil pastels before, so learning this new technique for the first time was really fun” Tuck said.
For Belmont’s art class she favored five students overall for their creativity and achievement in learning the mastery of oil pastels. With the top students being juniors Anna Pascual, Gavin Gonzalez, Emma Wisley, along with sophomores Carter Hale and Elijah Tuck. Belmont walks through how oil pastels work and how to properly use them. Students struggled with this new technique but had a fun time working on their art projects, making it a creative and exciting time.
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