Orange Slices and Bubbles - 15 Feb 2025

Just messing around with pastel pencils

First up, I wanted to recreate or improve on the orange slices design I made in acrylic. Further, I had this heptagon-by-construction with a nice geometry. Combining them, we get:

Heptagonal orange slices

It came out ok. The pastel gives some nice variation, but I cannot get fine detail from it. The veins in the orange and regularity of the cellular structure does not really come across. Varnished it as well, to make it more lively.

Bubbles!

Then I went a bit more abstract, with just orange bubbles and a brown-green ‘medium’ (solute?).

Bubbles in pastel

Here, the variation really works, with the ‘liquid’ parts looking very nice. It is a fun, simple little thing even if not in the end all that interesting :).