Pastel Art at Musee d'Orsay - No. 2

 

This is the second batch of photos I took at the pastel exhibit at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. These are by Master Artists Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet and Mary Cassatt. 

I was thrilled to see these famous works with my own eyes. I had the opportunity to scrutinize the strokes these masters did using pastels and crayon. They knew how to draw. They did not smear their pastel to blend colors, but used strokes, so that in some cases, the look is quite graphic.

I have more photos of paintings and I'll get that up in my blog. The artists among you will enjoy them. I should clarify that I'm not posting all the pastels displayed there, but I am choosing the ones that spoke to me. 

Enjoy! 

Pastel Art at the Musee d'Orsay - No. 1

 

During a recent visit to Paris, we visited the Musee d'Orsay, which had a Spring 2023 Pastel Exhibition.  I love pastels and try to learn on my own.  I still have to find a pastel teacher. Most of my art teachers don't like this medium.  I'm posting some of the pastels that I really liked. This is set 1.

 I was fascinated by the Olympia done by Edouard Manet, and which was copied by Paul Gauguin.  Degas bought the Gauguin copy to hang in his place.  

 

 

My Cat Che Jumping Over the Moon, Pastel by Cecilia Brainard

 

 

Che Jumping Over the Moon, by Cecilia Brainard 

I have been busy with literary work and have not touched my pencils. I picked up my pastel and just for fun I made my cat Che fly over the moon.

See also Cecilia Flying, pastel by Cecilia Brainard  

https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/03/cecilia-flying-pastel-by-cecilia.html

 

tags: Cat flying over the moon, pastel art, pastel drawing, children's art

Cecilia Flying, Pastel Art by Cecilia Brainard

 

 

Cecilia Flying, copyright 2023 by Cecilia M. Brainard

I used to have flying dreams. I made this pastel of a girl flying. In my dream an Evil Thing was chasing me. I would run and hide but the Evil Thing persisted. Just before the Evil Thing would catch me, I would fly. In my dreams, I learned how to control my flying.

 

The dreams recurred for years but some time, when I was already an adult and living in the US, the dreams stopped.

 See also my recent pastel of my cat Che Jumping Over the Moon -https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2023/03/my-cat-che-jumping-over-moon-pastel-by.html 

tags: children's art, art flying girl, pastel art, pastel drawing