Summer Days

Whistler’s emphasis was on his ordinary life and what he witnessed around him. He used subjects like relatives and friends as his subjects, and with them he used color to create a mood. In my piece I decided to, like Whistler, use subjects who meant something two me, so I have depicted a group of my close friends eating ice cream and talking, a very ordinary day in my life during the summer. I used brighter colors with a dull red paper to create a carefree mood, yet the overtone of the dull paper creates an ease to the scene. I also used multiple light sources to emulate the idea of the impressionists of the time, yet I maintained a realistic mark. This piece was done on colored paper in Prisma Colored pencils and Nupastels.