Artists cannot possibly have just one favorite color.
All colors.
Degas had a favorite theme, the ballet dancers and theatre performers in Paris. He liked capturing moments in contemporary life.
Degas was a painter and a sculptor. His tools included paints, brushes, pastels, and various scultping tools.
The use of strong diagonal lines
Oil paint on canvas. From about 1880 Degas concentrated on pastel. After his eyesight failed he did sculptures in wax. He also experimented with etchings, lithographs and monotypes.
To good effect.
Ballet dancers, portraits of people, race horses.
Degas had a favorite theme, the ballet dancers and theatre performers in Paris. He liked capturing moments in contemporary life.
Oil paint and in some cases pastels.
He made them in wax. After his death many of them were cast in bronze.
Pastel over brush-and-ink drawing on paper.
Degas was a painter and a sculptor. His tools included paints, brushes, pastels, and various scultping tools.
The use of strong diagonal lines
Oil paint on canvas. From about 1880 Degas concentrated on pastel. After his eyesight failed he did sculptures in wax. He also experimented with etchings, lithographs and monotypes.
how does L S lowry use colour in his work
To good effect.
To make a greater impression.
Oil paint, pastel, graphics, sculpture.