I had a black and white seagull in flight shot, but I am still learning about B&W photography and was not too happy with the result. So I decided to set up a simple picture with multiple contrasts and I think it worked OK. Not sure how the voters will react to this type of picture though.
I used pastels, and intentional contrasts were colour, Light and dark, horizontal and transverse lines, straight lines and curves. An unintentional one was the wider top gap than the rest. I will not have the chance to change that though.
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Beautiful job. Simple, clean, perfectly meets the challenge, and is pleasing visually. My only suggestion would be to deepen the tones of the yellow and blue - they are a little lighter than I think is necessary (and I realize that you've got light & shadow contrasts going on here too). Great work.