Flight of the Eagle
This is my first go at soft pastels (not oil pastels) in about 18 years. The background crater field
is almost entirely black and white pastel on grey card, but I added some highlights with a white
coloured pencil. The ship, meanwhile, was painted in acrylic, copied from a model I made. The image
shows the lunar excursion module coming down to land on the Moon. The crater field is actually based
on an Apollo 16 photo of the lunar far side, whereas the Eagle of course landed on the near side in
Mare Tranquillitatis, the 'Sea of Tranquillity'. At which point I will don my 'artistic license'
trump card