I love chalk pastel on black paper!  The colors just glow!  For this project, I made copies of animals from a Dover coloring book.  Students chose an animal and drew from the picture, using a light colored chalk pastel. Using black and white coloring book pictures really helped students draw these complicated animals.  It also helped them fill the whole page and achieve a balanced composition.   We used chalk pastels to add color, emphasizing layering of colors.  I couldn’t get everyone to embrace layering of colors.  But those who did really saw gorgeous results.