So, I started to work with pastels. It's going surprising well. I get mad or in one of my "funks" (Hank Hill), I take my construction paper or this light cardboard paper, grab my pastels, then head out to the balcony. I've got this little stereo, alarm thing that plays CDs, so I use it to jam to some good tunes while I go into artist mode. I've noticed that the people across the courtyard from our balcony have started to come out when they hear my music blaring outside. I think they like the music, but who knows. Maybe they like to go outside and smoke a cigarrette at the exact time that I'm out there. Meh, what are ya gonna do?
So far, I have a total of . . . seven pictures. I've got six here and one is in Houston with my great friend Thomas. The six that I have here are kind of here and there with their . . . whatever you wanna call it. What I mean is three of them are natural scenes, three of them are abstract, but still kind of natural, and the last one is . . . I guess it's natural, too. Hmmm, that bothers me. I don't want all of them to be natural scenes or natural scenes with some abstraction in them. I'd like them to mean more than what you see. I know that I've got that in, maybe, three of them. Whateva!
Since I brought up the pictures, I may as well tell you what they look like.
1) This one is on the paper in a portrait fashion. My first one, the one that Thomas has, is a lone, dead tree on the top of a hill. The grass is green and goes up, I guess, just under half of the page. A bright-red sun is behind it going down or coming up . . . no one really knows . . . I don't think I named this one.
2) My second one is something like the first one, but it centers on a sunset I saw recently in East Texas, near Tyler. There is one dead tree to the left of the sun, and is much smaller than the first. The grass is kind of dark-green, but has light-green highlights here and there. It's nice. This one is also in portrait style. We can call it "A New Day."
3) My third is kind of dark and more abstract than natural. It's on red construction paper, so I let that work with me. This one is landscape in style and I call it "A Broken Heart at Sea." An inch and half of the bottom is ocean. I made it dark in some areas, and light in others. Above it and to the left side, is a broken heart that is badly broken, but the pieces are not too far apart. I let the black color of the heart run the pieces together very lightly. I colored a good portion of the background black as well, but left a thick outline of red around the heart. Above the heart and to the right, there is a whisp of white cloud that also has an outline of red around it, but it isn't as thick.
4) My fourth is called "Supernova." A supernova is a huge and powerful explosion in outer space. In making this one, I was actually trying to make like a dart-board looking thing or swirly thing, I screwed up, and Supernova was born! I used yellow for the center, then orange around it, then red, the blue, then green, then black. I blended like hell and added light-blue for the light emited by the center. It looks cool, I think. That one is in portrait style.
5) This one was more like an experimental flower that went wrong. I planned to make a flower that had flames, rather than petals. Half of it was going to be blue flame and the other half was going to be red flame. I didn't exactly figure how many petals, and so "Wood and Fire" came about. It is on black construction paper, which is the sky and about half of the way down, the grass begins. In the center of the page (landscape style), is a tree stump. Fallind behind the stump is a four-pointed, blue, flaming sun.
A good mistake I think.
6) I did these next two about ten minutes ago. "Grand-daddy Falls" is an actual place. It's located in the Green Belt in Austin, Texas. The waterfalls in this picture aren't the falls that are called Grand Daddy Falls, but I figured that it was okay to call it that. This picture is landscape and on pink construction paper. The falls are directly in the center and have dark-brown and black rocks to either side of them. There are two falls in the picture, one on top of the other. A river is feeding into the falls and has trees on the sides of it. To the right of the river and trees, there is a light trail leading to the falls. An orange sun is sinking behind the horizon into a red sky. This one gave me some trouble. It used to be my favorite.
7) I'm not too proud of this one. It was extremely simple to make. There is a green pasture that has a small creek that cuts into it on the left. To the right of the creek, there is a weeping willow tree. There are dark-grey, blackish clouds above and behind the tree. Rain is falling, but I screwed up on the blending, so it doesn't look too natural. This one is landscape and on light-blue construction paper. I call it "Weeping for Rain."
So that's about all I've been up to lately. I hope you can picture these . . . pictures pretty vividly. Thanks for reading!
