My Chalk Pastel Drawing Of “Peony”

See my process for creating this chalk pastel drawing of “Peony”.

I personally been wanting to do a series of flower faces for a while. For this piece it needed to be bright and colorful! It is spring, which is full of life and energy. I do a lot of horror themed work and this was a good change in pace.

•The Process•

As you can see below I use a lot of implied lines to help your eye travel around the flower petals in a spiral. I then had to use the background to keep your eye within the center. Because I used such a blunt and centered composition, I wanted to continue this theme of symmetry by making the subject looking directly forward. Everywhere outside the face has a lot of energetic, organic lines and the smooth face makes a great contrast and gives the eye a place to rest. And with all these swirling organic shapes everywhere, I knew I needed to anchor the piece was horizontal implied lines (far right image.) My line work is naturally organic and an instructor pointed this out to me one day. Since then I try to incorporate geometric (strong horizontal and vertical) line work to help contrast and strengthen my organic way of working.

See my inspiration gallery here on my blog: https://ashlylovett.com/blog/2016/2/29/peony

•Limited Edition Prints•

I’m excited to announce that “Peony” is now an exclusive print only with RhinoBarkingSparrow.com. 12×12” printed on Heavy Fine Arts 340 gsm paper limited run edition of 20. Love their gold hand embossed stamp. The prints turned out perfect. They look just like the original. :)

More info: rhinobarkingsparrow.com