Saturday 5 October 2019

White And Blue,

it seems so simple,


  but with so many shades of white and blue, the results of Pastel artist Zaria Forman’s subject of her choice the glacier, look amazing, above “Lincoln Sea, Greenland” (2019), soft pastel on paper, 68 x 108 inches,

 we have featured the artists work a couple of times before, “Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 68 x 102 inches

 the Brooklyn-based artist travels worldwide, often accompanying scientific expeditions, “Charcot Fjord, Greenland” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 90 x 60 inches

 “Hiawatha Basin, Greenland”, soft pastel on paper

  “Weddell Sea Southeast off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 60 x 90 inches

 “Arctic Ocean Northwest off the coast of Ellesmere Island, Canada” (2018), 40 x 60 inches

 “Supraglacial Lake (between Hiawatha and Humboldt Glaciers), Greenland, July 19 2017” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 60 x 81 7/8 inches

 “Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 40 x 60 inches

 “Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland, 69° 4’51.58N 49°28’24.41W, April 29th, 2017” (2018), soft pastel on paper, 108 3/8 x 68 inches

she travels to experience and document glaciers firsthand, taking thousands of reference photographs to inform her enormous pastel drawings, she travels to experience and document glaciers firsthand, taking thousands of reference photographs to inform her enormous pastel drawings, Forman shares that she draws from memory as well as from her reference photographs. “Occasionally I will re-shape the ice a little, or simplify a busy background to create a balanced composition, but 90% of the time I am depicting the exact scene that I witnessed, because I want to stay true to the landscape that existed at that point in time.” what stunning pieces of artwork.


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