Drawing

African Patterns on wrapping paper

On wrapping paper you draw simple african patterns with a white oil pastel: lines, dots, spirals, triangles, circles and stylized animals. Then you can paint with watercolors in the blanks, using only a few warm colours like brown, ocher, bordeaux and black.

wrapping brown paper

drawing with white oil pastel

paint with watercolor

Choose only a few warm colours 

10—Njembe. Female Secret Society. —Mpongwe, Gabun

10—Njembe. Female Secret Society. —Mpongwe, Gabun

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7—Natives Trading in Plantains and Bamboo Building Materials.—Gabun

Ivanga

11—Ekope of the Ivanga Dance.—Gabun

famille riche

9—A Civilized Family. — Gabun

5—Elephants' Tusks and Palm-leaf Thatch. Two Hundred Miles up the Ogowe River