Lotus Flower in Oil Pastels.

Greetings! Today India celebrates its 74th Independence day, and I wanted to tie this in with an appropriate art lesson. This year I thought we could learn how to draw our National Flower, the Lotus which also happens to be one of my favourite flowers. This drawing is symmetrical and fairly easy to do and children ages 5 and upwards can do it with a little adult guidance.

You will need

• paper

• pencil and eraser

• oil pastels

Lotus Flower in Oil Pastels

1) Draw your Lotus nice and big, keeping the paper in a vertical position, I like to tell small kids that we're going to draw an upside down rainbow. Next, do the petal in the centre, then the sides, keep drawing in more petals, lastly add, two more growing side-ways.

For the stem, draw two straight lines, going from the bottom of the Lotus, right down to edge of the paper. To make the large leaf, draw two side-ways "rainbow" lines on either sides of the lotus stalk. For its veins, draw what I call little "birds" along the inside of the leaf. Then imagine a centre for your leaf and draw lines extending from your "birds" to the centre. 

2) Contour your drawing with oil pastels, red for the Lotus, dark green for the stalk and stem, dark blue for water. Colour your lotus using medium pressure. I've made mine pink with red veins.

Tada! and we are done, the Lotus is a beautiful flower to draw anytime of the year, not just come Independence Day. 😊🇮🇳🕊️

Here are some Lotuses by our little artists, I have finally embraced online classes, I kept putting it off till recently, but now I look forward to our virtual art room. 😊

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Have a great weekend, stay safe and see you in another post.

~ Sabrina.