Oil pastel planet art

Mercury & Venus || oil pastel

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60X48, acrylic on canvas, original

I want to present you my pastel paintings. My inspiration mainly comes from the beauty of natural, organic forms. Throughout my life, I have attended dance, sports, yoga and design classes that helped me to develop an artistic vision.

Lesson idea found at Deep Space Sparkle. For this lesson we began by comparing and contrasting an image of a circle and a sphere and talked about what attributes made the sphere look 3D compared to the circle. After talking, we decided that it was really the use of highlights and shadows on the sphere that made it look 3D. This led us into a conversation about value, tints, and shades as a tool to create the illusion of form. Then we transitioned to a PowerPoint I put together about the…