Elizabeth, thank you so much. I was visiting your site and I think your sense of color is just beautiful. I love the painting entitled "Gwendolyn." It's just wonderful so I suspect that it wouldn't take you hardly any time to do gorgeous eyes as you have already done. I'm really having fun getting to know everyone here and seeing all the stunning work. Thank you again.

Lisa, This is lovely, and as stated before the hair and eyes are incredible. As far as sharpeners go I have a Dahle 155 which is great for pastel pencils. It adjusts to the different pencil sizes and you can also determine how sharp you want your pencil from 3/8-1/2 inch.

Jenni! I am so sorry I missed this post. Better late than never because the pencil sharpener I thought was gonig to work well turned out to be like all the others. Thank you first for the compliments on my little painting. Thank you also for the sharpener suggestion. I am going to go hunt that down and try it.

Again, sorry it has taken me so long to respond.