Scottish Pastures

4x6
Soft Pastel on Canson Mi Teintes Paper
Price: NFS
Year painted: 2005
Pastels used: Nupastel, Rembrandt, Sennelier, Schmincke
Source: My imagination.
I had read somewhere that pastel paintings are usually meant to be larger works, generally to be seen at a distance. I thought I’d try for myself whether or not pastels could work on a very small scale, and was quite happy to find that this tiny 4x6 postcard size allowed me to create a very nice impressionistic feel in the final painting. I intentionally used the reverse side of Canson Mi Teintes because it has less tooth than a sanded paper, which forced me to keep my strokes simpler.