Today I painted the same scene as yesterday, using the same pastels, but using UART 400 paper (again from my Jackson’s Art sampler set). This paper was easier to use, and I enjoyed it very much. The marks I made were much bolder — automatically — on the UART 400 paper.

Image by Evgeni Tcherkasski from Pixabay

And here are the two paintings side by side. The velour version appears much softer, almost as if the image is blurry.