Van Gogh for Kids: How to Draw a Wheat Field Tutorial

This Van Gogh for kids fine art project was inspired past his amazing painting titled "Wheatfield with Crows". An oil pastel drawing that follows his gold and bluish palette is a fun way to make an equally moody night time cartoon.

A Van Gogh for Kids art project, made with the help of an easy step by step tutorial.

Van Gogh was famous for painting in a actually super thick manner, which oftentimes gave his paintings lots of texture. This Van Gogh for kids project borrows from his amazing composition and colors choices, with oil pastels, instead of painting. It'south an piece of cake way to get all those wonderful sketchy lines, without the heavy paint and knife that Van Gogh probably used.

If you don't already have oil pastels on paw, I highly recommend the Portfolio® brand that is in my materials listing below. They are soft and like shooting fish in a barrel to use, but more than importantly include some of the perfect colors needed to get close to Van Gogh's original painting. The golden xanthous, browns and blues all layer beautifully with colour that looks both bright and transparent at the same time. Back in my day, they were easy to purchase at my local Staples store, but if you don't see them, they are available online too. The cost is college than the boilerplate school make, but they truly are a joy to color with.

Vincent Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows painting

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Materials to Draw Van Gogh'south Wheat Field

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  • Pencil.
  • The Ticonderoga brand are the well-nigh reliable, brand overnice dark lines when you need them, and are the easiest to erase.
  • Eraser .
  • Large erasers you can hold in your paw do a much better job than simply the pencil tip erasers, especially when erasing leftover pencil lines after tracing.
  • Crayola Crayons.
  • This is THE brand to utilise for this projection. It has the perfect yellows and dejection, and the soft texture leaves lots of thick color, simply like Van Gogh did.

Step by Step Directions

How to Draw Van Gogh's Wheat Field

  1. Draw the horizon line, route and moon in pencil.

  2. Color with yellow, brown and blue.

  3. Describe squiggly grass lines with an orangish pastel

  4. Add sketchy route lines with a rust pastel.

  5. Add darker blue pastel to the heaven. Circle the moon with white.

  6. Add a few more grass lines with the darker orangish.

  7. Use the black pastel to draw large and small flying crows.