Naughty Henry heron pastel portrait

                                                                   Naughty Henry
                                                                        14"x11"
                                                                         Pastel
Henry is the prime suspect in Carla's mystery whodunit of "Who Ate the Goldfish in the Garden".   Henry was seen in her yard for several days and does seem to have a self satisfied look gleaming in his eye.  He was grateful enough, however, that he stayed posed and allowed her to get quite close to take pictures.

I started out planning to use colored pencils on the DurALar.  Quickly it didn't work, I just couldn't get the grays dark enough before the tooth of the paper is filled.  This is a mylar paper, synthetic and transparent.  While you can put about 4-5 layers of pencil on each side it does fill up fast.  So I switched from CP to pan pastels.  Due to the sheer manner of application this worked pretty well and I mostly used only one side.  The unusual thing about using the DurALar is that it is matte but you can see through it, I put several different paper color options behind it and settled on this one, a bright blue.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.