[Marina Dieul]

Thank you all,
I was amazed too to see the possibilities of red+ black. If I add a bit of ochre yellow and a cold red, I could have all the colors, I think... But I wanted to keep things very simple and that it looks like a drawing not a pastel. Maybe another one...
In the beginning I though it would be quickly done, but finally I spent much time softening, and softening and softening again. I'm always impressed to see how skin and hair ( and fur) are so soft in transitions. In comparison with trompe l'oeil where I learned to push the contrasts so the objects jump forward, I have to learn to be subtle, delicate, to resist to the temptation to add too much white high lights and black shadows...
But that said, it's only technique... It doesn't help anyone who has nothing to say ...(thank you alex!)