For this project, we had to use oil pastels, chalk pastels, or colored pencils to draw something up close or zoomed in. I developed ideas for this by looking up pictures on Pinterest. I found a lot of interesting things like flowers, dogs, pencils breaking, and more. I narrowed it down to a horse nose and apple and a birds nest. When I drew my sketches, the birds nest had a more interesting composition so I went with that. I demonstrated emphasis in my work by making the eggs the most interesting point in the drawing. They have the brightest colors and highlights because I used pink, purple, and white, and that makes them stand out inside the nest on the tree. I decided to use oil pastels because when I practiced with all three mediums, I thought that I was most successful using them. I've had experience with all three mediums, but I love the oil pastel texture and how you don't have to be so exact but just layering colors and shapes will give the desired effect. My risks in this piece were just trying to work with the oil pastels in a way that would make the birds nest look like a birds nest without have to draw any individual pieces of straw or anything. I also had to work hard to make sure that I included a lot of highlights. Even though it feels weird adding those bright lights and darks and colors, it does make it look more realistic and more like the picture you're trying to draw. Another risk was bringing my own oil pastels in because I'm so protective of them and I was really worried I would lose or break them! I used medium as a technique of art in this drawing because the oil pastels worked really well in my picture and their colors and properties brought a lot more to the drawing than a colored pencil or chalk pastel would. They brought much more texture that you can see. This was a fun project that didn't take so incredibly long, and I liked it very much!
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