# Drawing large foreground - elements - soft pastels

**URL:** <https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/drawing-large-foreground-elements-soft-pastels/4184>\
**Category:** Art Medium Discussion and Questions\
**Created:** [January 7, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/drawing-large-foreground-elements-soft-pastels/4184 "2025-01-07T11:15:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![AndyJ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/andyj/32/6819_2.png) [@AndyJ](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/AndyJ)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/drawing-large-foreground-elements-soft-pastels/4184/1 "2025-01-07T11:15:21Z")

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Creating large - foreground images …

This is a picture I would love to create , I understand creating the background / mid ground / foreground

How do you create a large ( tree ) in the front ?

May seem a strange questions I have tried various ways .

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**Author:** ![Denise](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/denise/32/40_2.png) [@Denise](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Denise)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/drawing-large-foreground-elements-soft-pastels/4184/2 "2025-01-07T23:04:31Z")

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Very beautiful. Great work.

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**Author:** ![Bearinthegarden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a6a055/32.png) [@Bearinthegarden](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/Bearinthegarden)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/drawing-large-foreground-elements-soft-pastels/4184/3 "2025-01-16T00:44:21Z")

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I don’t think it’s a strange question. Since pastels layer so well, I’d just do the background and mid ground and then put the tree on top. Lighter colors layer on top of dark colors easily with pastel, I think the most challenging part may be the dark leaves against the darkest blues in the sky. Maybe lighten the value of the leave a little to make the leaves stand out. Then after the tree is in place go back and reinforce some sky holes with the blues or colors of your choice. Those are my thoughts, but I’m sure that are other ways to do it too.