The Inspiration
For my next project of using pastels with paint, I wanted today a more night sky scene. I thought I could do something simple, like a valley of flowers with the moon and maybe a cloud. It was just that simple with coming up with this idea.
Planning Phase
I used a very similar process for planning this panting as I did with the last one. First I did a light Sketch of where I wanted everything to go. With the cloud and the moon, I though it would of looked a bit better if I did a white with a hint of blue in them. And the Grass would be a Dark green, while the sky would be a near black blue.
For the color pastels I thought it Would of been a cool Idea to use them to draw out the curators in the moon. To make it look less like a floating white orb in the sky. For the flowers, I thought I could draw dots with the chalk pastels since this is a more wide shot of the valley
Panting the Panting
I started with the sky background, as I wanted every thing to pop out. To get the shade of blue that I wanted, it took a lot of color mixing for me get the right shade. After playing around with 4ish different colors, I laded on this soft midnight blue that I liked. On the spot I thought a very subtle umbrae would of looked good with the sky. I just added some white as I went down the sky, not very hard.
Next I did the moon with the cloud, the moon I used tape to make sure it stayed the shape I wanted. With the cloud, I just used a sponge like I did with the last project. Overall It only took me like 15 minutes to get the moon and the cloud finished.
The next day I started panting the grass, I played around with the greens until I got the dark shade that I wanted to use. I played down some more tape to keep my Lines sharp, and protect the sky. When I actually started panting the grass, the paint came out really streaky and didn’t look great. I had to wait until the next class finish panting the second coat for the grass, which made that its own 2 day project.
Adding the pastels and final panting
For the color Pastels, they were pretty easy to work out. For the moon, I just added some lines and a circle and soothed them out to give them that curator look. The flowers just took some dabbing with the color pastels to make the look nice. the tricky bit with them was to not smouch them to much or they would of looked like a cloud of dust.
After the color pastels I was finished with my second project with this pathways rotation. I was happy with how this panting also turned out, especially the moon. I feel that my cloud is a little to big, but I might just being nitpicking. Either way this project and the previous was a lot of fun, and I got to learn some things.
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