Coral Cornucopia Painting

"Coral Cornucopia" is part of a series of soft pastel drawings exploring seaweed and shells within a contemporary still life composition. The exceptional quality Unison Colour Soft Pastels have been used on 35x50cm Pastelmat paper. This paper will need mounting prior to framing to prevent any pastel from touching the glass. Still life has been a constant subject throughout the history of art, with contemporary artists reinvigorating the subject. I am naturally drawn to vibrant colours and the use of complementary colours and rhythm of colour within a drawing was something that I wanted to explore within a series. My inspiration for the subject of shells and seaweed in this and other drawings in the "Cornucopia" series came from my passion for nature and a desire to find the beauty in natural objects. Combining this subject with my attraction to colour allowed me to explore mark making and creating texture within a contemporary composition. The results allowed a representational drawing to also produce abstracted, surreal and expressionistic elements. Soft Pastels allowed me to explore the use of vibrant colours within a drawing and also provided me with the ability to layer techniques over one another for example underpainting, staining, blending colours together, creating smooth textures and mark making on top of earlier layers. I found that mark making with pastels allowed me to provide more intuitive responses to the drawing and to the textures I was trying to depict.

Painting:soft pastel on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:19.7 W x 13.8 H x 0.2 D in

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