Take your black paper and draw up your heart design. Make sure the hearts are not too small otherwise the glue will be hard to lay down.

Gently and slowly lay the glue down onto the black paper directly over your graphite drawing. Make sure you have no gaps in glue otherwise it will not bring on the stained-glass effect when it is all finished. Allow to dry for 24 hours.

Choose the colours you are using for your heart artwork and start colouring in. Light colours work best but you can use white oil pastel along with a darker colour so that it doesn’t disappear into the black paper. Try not to brush off the bits of oil pastel that create balls on your drawing as the baby oil will flatten these.

Now you are ready to start painting! A paint palette is best for this as you can end up colouring the oil from dipping a pastel-soaked brush into the same well. Look at the example and see the red in the palette. Only a little bit of oil is required so gently dip a clean brush into baby oil and then brush it over ONE colour only. Before you start on a new colour you must wipe your brush clean using the paper towel. Then dip it in clean oil and repeat this process until your artwork. The baby oil doesn’t take long to dry and so your artwork is ready to hang, take home or give to someone as a gift.