Pastels

Research into cave art continues to enthral – but the pastel preliminaries are not convincing and their dust triggers my asthma.  In the right hands, such as Caro Brownhill’s (www.carobwildlifeart.net) pastel is beautiful.  Mine aren’t the right hands and I don’t react fast enough in selecting the right colours, it’s not done instinctively, because I don’t know them well enough. Pastels and I are not friends!  With acrylics and watercolour it’s a different matter.