Today I put the finishing touches on my grayscale study of my cranberry glass. It’s no longer floating in space!

I was too busy today to do another sunset study, or some of the assignments from the online workshops I’m taking. However, I wanted to use some of my non-sanded pastel paper from the sampler I bought a year ago.

Today’s work is on Hahnemuhle Ingres paper, and I used only NuPastels.

What I like best is the candle flames. What I’m clearly struggling with is smoothly transitioning from one color to another! Part of that might be due to the hardness of the NuPastels; they don’t blend as well as soft pastels. The image is based on a very old birthday card.