Blue Sunset
This drawing is made of soft pastels. If you have never worked with soft pastel before, it’s chalky like charcoal. It blends together nicely, unlike oil pastel, which gets clumpy. I often like to draw in just black and white, but every now and then I like to “play” with color. This drawing is not completely real. I made it up in my head and decided to create a world of my own. I envisioned a mirror like lake against a dark horizon line, with a sunset of blue, pink, purple and yellow pastels that move out and off the page. When I draw, I like to use my finger tips to blend the colors together, this always gets my fingers and hands all dirty with soft pastel particles. Which is fine with me, I love to get my hands really into my work. It helps me feel like I really am creating something. When I took the pictures of my drawing for my blog, one of them cast this cool prism look.
