Word: pastel
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When I was five years old I drew a pastel portrait in vivid purple and blue inspired by the Queen of Hearts. My work of art, which I named “Heart Lady,” now seems to me to be some sort of drag queen version of the redoubtable visage on the playing cards themselves. Her hat is just a little too far from her head and one arm kind of swims out in front, unattached to the rest of her body. My art teacher liked the drawing, though. She even put it on the cover...
...soon as the curtain rose, I was struck by how well the set and lighting design worked together to conjure the play’s exotic world. Papier-mâché palm trees, swaths of pastel gauze drawn up to evoke the island-mountains, and bright lights in pinks and turquoises (shifting whenever there was a change in mood), were just the sort of cotton-candy mood-setters that the production needed. The effect was not particularly subtle, but it was completely satisfying...
...decor from just one vendor. They like to shop around. When her mom remarried in August, Ellen got a new room as part of the deal. "Mom told me I could do whatever I wanted, within reason," says Ellen. Her light-aqua room has a surfboard headboard from PBteen, pastel paper lamps from Pier 1 and a surfer-theme picture frame from Old Navy. Not everything is from a chain store. Ellen found a hula-girl lamp at a Galveston surf shop. Stepdad Terry Letteer approves of the overall look but admits there was a price...
...ghost of a shade's opposite (green-red, turquoise-orange) to make hallucinatory hues. In Veld (1971), diagonal stripes in vivid green contain narrow stripes of white, bordered by infinitesimal lines of red - but you could swear the white was yellow. From jazzy stripes she moved on to paler, pastel ripples. Undulations of pink, lilac, jade and ochre make Song of Orpheus 5 (1978) positively pretty, even gentle. Inspired by a visit to Egypt in the late '70s, she returned to stripes. In works like Après Midi (1981), she recreated the palette of ancient tombs: terra-cotta, malachite...
Harvard does an admirable job of putting together classes composed of true individuals. After a recent visit to a school where homogeneity was the natural state of existence (had I stayed there any longer I thought I too would sprout blonde hair and don pastel miniskirts) I came back ready to hug everyone from the guy who resembles Shrek in my English section to John Lopez in Leverett House (hello John) who wears Hawaiian shirts in the dead of winter. Quirky is the first word that comes to mind when describing people I have come to share my life with...