Margaret, the second is is great too! Have you thought of doing something bigger with more space around the figure so that it becomes a colour field where the intensity of work is the same in the background and foreground.
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Anne Gale . I thought you might be interested to see her work. An example is below.
I am hopeless at pastels - whenever I start to do one I inevitable give it up to do the same thing in paint.
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