Learn how to create dreamy landscape drawings with oil pastels
Learn how to create dreamy landscape drawings with oil pastels, focusing on soft sky gradients and realistic mountain lighting. In this class, you’ll be guided step by step through both a warm-up exercise and a complete landscape project, while learning essential blending and layering techniques.
What you’ll learn
- Create smooth gradients in the sky using multiple colors.
- Build depth through layering techniques.
- Add texture and details to make your landscape more realistic.
- Develop confidence in creating soft, atmospheric scenes.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 2 lectures • 3min.
- The Dreamy Sky –> 1 lecture • 9min.
- The Mountain Landscape –> 2 lectures • 22min.
Requirements
Learn how to create dreamy landscape drawings with oil pastels, focusing on soft sky gradients and realistic mountain lighting. In this class, you’ll be guided step by step through both a warm-up exercise and a complete landscape project, while learning essential blending and layering techniques.
Whether you’re new to oil pastels or looking to improve your skills, this class will help you create smooth color transitions and bring depth to your landscapes.
In this class you will learn:
- Create smooth gradients in the sky using multiple colors
- Blend oil pastels using fingers and blending tools
- Build depth through layering techniques
- Understand and paint light and shadow on mountains
- Add texture and details to make your landscape more realistic
- Develop confidence in creating soft, atmospheric scenes
Gather Your Materials
You’ll need:
- Colors used in class: (Oil Pastel I used is Mungyo Gallery 72 Colours)
For Dreamy Sky: sky blue 217, light purple violet 215, yellow 202, salmon 240, pink 216.
For Mountain: pale yellow 243, yellow 202, olive yellow 242, white244, olive 233, raw amber 235, grey 246, silver grey 249, ice blue 265, cobalt blue 221, and russet 237. - Oil pastels (any brand is fine — as long as your colors are similar) Mine is from Mungyo Gallery
- Sketchbook or drawing paper (110–200gsm recommended)
- Pencil for sketching
- Cotton buds or Blending Tools for blending
- Eraser
- Fingers (optional for blending)
Landscapes are a great way to improve your understanding of color, lighting, and composition, and oil pastels are perfect for creating soft, expressive effects.
This class is designed to be simple, relaxing, and beginner-friendly, while still teaching important foundational skills.
If you enjoy calm, aesthetic art and want to create artwork that feels soft, dreamy, and expressive, this class is perfect for you.
Thank you so much for your interest in this class!
Hi, I’m an oil pastel & also pencil art artist, a self-taught creative who learned through online courses and lots of practice—no art school required. I believe anyone can learn to draw and paint with the right guidance, and I’m here to show you that oil pastels can be fun, relaxing, and beginner-friendly. I teach food drawing with oil pastels and am working on more classes featuring landscapes, pets, animals, and human portrait.