A little while back, I got a book at the local library used book sale. It is a book of quotes and there were some from Wernher Von Braun. He is a very large part of the NASA program, here in Huntsville. Then, when we went to the Space and Rocket Center, I saw quite a bit about him there. So, I decided to make his portrait with the moon and Saturn, which is what some of his rockets were named after.
This is pastels on watercolor paper. I painted the paper with burnt sienna to give it a tone. Then I drew the initial sketch with graphite and white charcoal. I sprayed a workable fixative over that and then used pastels to color it. It is 11×12.
For my confirmation, I didn’t get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. — Wernher Von Braun
Virginia C. McCoy Fine Art 