Fly Me to the Moon

With clear packaging tape and an exacto knife I made two — one big, one small.  They came out just fine.   Easier than I thought.

This week, the assignment was to make a simple stencil and tell stories.*   See what pan pastels can do. Work with shape, value, edges, space, color, grouping, scale, and more.

With the fly stencils and a 6” x 6” square, I figured I had enough of a starting point for story.  So I set to work.  But as soon as pan pastel hit paper — any stories I’d had in mind vaporized.  I didn’t even notice, so absorbed was I in the what have we here? And the what happens next?

The next day looking at the pictures with fresh eyes, stories began to stir.

Why Some Magenta Flies have Giant Shadows

Blue Flies into the Vortex

The Fly By

The Boss

This Way to the Larger World

Fly Me to the Moon

*This time, a stencil was the gateway to story.  Thank you Dawn Emerson, her pastel workshop with Kitsap Art Center.