Early Fall, Early Evening

 

"Early Fall, Early Evening" 8x10 pastel $125.00

 

I love landscapes, those quiet places that take your breath away.  This was from a visit to the New Hampshire White Mountains as the trees were just beginning to turn. 

 

I went to Blick on Saturday and Unison pastels were on sale so I bought about a dozen to round off my set.  I couldn't wait to try them out. When I work in pastel I have a paper trough under my work to catch stray pastel dust.  Since I do so many landscapes the dust is a soft gray green.  I had water to it and make a new pastel.  Today when I removed the trough it spilled all over my working pastels! They will clean up easily and I did manage to salvage most of the dust.