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#pastels — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pastels, aggregated by home.social.

  1. By Odilon Redon (French, 1840–1916), La Voile jaune (The Yellow Sail), ca. 1905, pastel on paper, 23 x 18-1/2 inches, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. #art #arthistory #drawing #pastel #pastels

    From the museum: “ Redon's art was part of a broader European current that included Sigmund Freud's analysis of dreams and the founding of modern psychology.”

  2. An example of our connections: a high school friend (retired nurse now artist) offers watercolor sketches

    Fellow bloggers and long distance friends, Gray Summers (retired nurse, songwriter/musician, fan of all things vintage, and Johnny Depp) and Linda Lewis (watercolor sketch artist and weight loss inspiration to me) may LOVE this post! (Click their names to visit their blog sites.) My high school friend Teresa Damron has retired from her nursing career and been drawing and sketching, with her most recent being watercolor sketches! I'll share a couple of her exquisite animal sketches (yes, she […]

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  3. While at NASA/JPL the other day, I visited an old friend: the hand assembled and colored map from the first Mariner 4 tv image. A geologist got impatient waiting for the image processing folks to assemble the image, so they printed out the raw values onto tiny strips, stapled them to a wall, and hand-colored it with pastels. To save the map, it was sawed out of the wall and framed as a gift to the Lab director. Recently remounted and preserved. #NASA #JPL #Map #Mariner4 #Pastels #Geologist