Being Square! - Squiggle Project #4

Project #4 (day 292) was to Be square!  It was a very simple task of working only with squares (or a giant square with a bunch of objects).

This project was completed on Super Bowl Sunday - which I spent at home with a great friend after a long day of shopping the day before (IKEA rocks!!).  We're not huge football fans but we enjoy watching casually and we of course enjoy watching the commercials - some better than others this year.  So, we both decided to spend some time being creative, which we love doing together, and I figured it was a good opportunity to work on my next "365 project".

For this project I decided to pull out the black presentation/Bristol board and the oil pastels.  I chose these because first, I love the way colors pop on a black background and second, because I haven’t pulled out any form of pastels since college – and I'm pretty sure I've never worked with oil pastels… something new.

So, since this was new – I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect.  But after I played with them a bit before actually getting started and I quickly discovered - for me they are somewhere between soft pastels and crayons.  They were easy and fun to work with.  Oddly enough -  I actually like the “unfinished” look of the oil pastels on this paper.  They are much like the look of crayons, showing some of the paper color you're using underneath the color.  I think it’s actually a pretty good look and technique on the black background. 

The design of eight squares, in three different sizes, actually started as a plan for 9 squares of equal size – spread evenly across the page... because I'm all about even.  I then decided, after much debate, I liked the idea of larger squares accented with the smaller ones on either side – bringing me to my final design.