Painting with Pastels

Although I have done a few paintings in pastel in my career as an artist, I really did want to take the plunge and play with the medium.  The first landscape painting I did was ... well ... in my opinion, "crap."  But such is the learning curve with a new medium like this.  My brain keeps wanting me to put away the pastels to collect dust in my studio and just stick to oil paints.  But, for some reason, I'm getting brave.

Brave, because, as an artist, treading into new creative territory is like jumping off a cliff and hoping the parachute opens.  

I'm going to try to do several pastel paintings a week, crap or not, we'll see how it goes ... or grows.