Title: Soft Pastel Landscape Date: January 8th, 2021 Media: Soft pastels Dimension: 9" x 12"
Artist Statement: This piece includes a landscape with many trees, bushes, and a beautiful lake reflecting the tree line. I incorporated different shades of green by adding black, brown, and other shades of green and used many of those colors for the reflection in the water. Throughout this composition, I used space, amount of detail, and size to illustrate depth and space between the background and the foreground and used many different shades and values to create form and texture in the water and the trees. This piece was influenced by a project in my art class, my love of nature, and by the original picture that my sister took. Through the drawing process I learned how to draw water with chalk pastels and how to add texture, allowing me to expand my experience with different medias and opened my eyes to new techniques.