Practicing Art

Someone asked me last week if I've been doing any pastel drawings lately. Well, no, I hadn't been. But that question got me to thinking about pastels again. I've been reluctant to get out the oil paints and get set up to attempt a painting, but pastels would be easy to work with. I could get the box of pastels out and get started without any difficulty, and I could lay it aside without cleaning brushes.

This is my first attempt at using pastels for many, many months. Many things about this drawing please me but there are a couple of things, three actually, that jar me as being not quite right. I don't think I'll frame this picture. I think I should probably start over and try to correct the problems when I do the second drawing.

It was fun to work with pastels again. It doesn't have to be perfect to let me feel good about the effort I've made. I think I shall try again. Perhaps I'll do a landscape. Drawing a buck is very ambitious for me.