Experimenting With Oil Pastel

Art by Khushi Chauhan

An assortment of David A. Hardy artworks from the 1970s

My holiday cards from the past several years! I love making these. It's great to reach the end of the year and make something that doesn't need to be perfect.

M. C. Escher (Dutch,1898-1972)

Puddle, 1952

Woodcut in colors on thin laid Japon paper

Outspan Orange Mini (1972)

I need to draw my fancy Rat King again. This sketch is almost six years old.

1. The November Meteors, chromolithograph from the Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, 1882 - 2. Leonid Meteor Storm seen in November 1833, from the Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt.

Uranus. The double-spread painting for the original books depicted a scene from the innermost large moon, Ariel, with Miranda visible above the planet. Voyager showed the surface of Ariel to be covered by deep, criss-crossing valleys and canyons, so this painting proved predictive - though, the artist admits, this was mainly coincidence! Uranus is shown as a crescent; the horns extend from one side of the equator to the other, rather than from pole to pole. Art: David A. Hardy