Pastel - stage 1
Roughing in the composition
Pastel - stage 2
Rubbing and smoothing the background colour - to produce a thin coating of pastel over the whole surface on which to build.
Pastel - stage 3
Establishing mid - dark tones
Pastel - stage 4
Building up detail, refining the drawing.
Pastel - stage 5
More detail and darker tones.
Pastel - stage 6
Finished.
Pastel - stage 7 - finished picture
Finished and image trimmed. They always look better with a mount and frame!
