Triangular pastel portrait street dancer

                                                                       Triangular
                                                                         12"12"
                                                                         Pastel

Well today was just a fun day and trying my street performers out in pastel on black Artagain paper.  I was getting itchy as I haven't painted with chalk now in quite a while.  Actually the inspiration for this piece is I am going to try to get featured in an instagram account, weekly_art_comp.

This weeks challenge is about geometry.  Well got to admit that I wasn't the brightest bulb in this math class.  But I figured that most of the entries are going to being those fabulous mandalas and other really structured pictures.  I don't do those kinds of things as I find them a bit too tedious and I just don't have the patience level for them.

But as I looked at this reference picture that I pulled for street performers, I saw lots of triangles that the body made naturally and just deiced to enhance them a bit.  I also wanted to try out the template I had using  pan pastels to see how it would work so I just threw that in as well.  So as always, there is a bit of experimentation going on.

Thanks much for stopping by and taking a look.

Comments

Joan Tavolott said…
Another stunning one where you have captured the action and incorporated something different. It works well!!!
October 5, 2017 at 9:55 PM
Sheila said…
Cool :) Good Luck to you :)
October 6, 2017 at 1:11 AM
Mellowood Gallery said…
This is great Nelvia! So many triangles - even more than you indicated and I really like the touches of white that help show movement. So very cool!
October 6, 2017 at 11:46 AM
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