Back Bay Dredging - Pastel on Wallis

This is with the soft pastel applied. The idea is to follow your values from the sketch and keep your colors together in that value. So darks, midtones and lights stay in there families.

Back Bay Dredging - value sketch

I have spent the last 2 days at a plein air pastel workshop given by Kim Lordier. It has been fun and filled with new information to wrap my brain around. Kim is an amazing pastel artist . I feel very grateful to get to take 3 days to paint out in the Newport Back Bay and Laguna. The sketch shown is a study in value and keeping it straight. Commiting to a value and staying with it is not always easy. It is important to the overall structure of a composition. It makes the idea stay together. Anyway it has been very good and I look forward to tomorrow.