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I think this one turned out better. Strayed from the reference pic a bit and added some flowers in the front.

Also used a lighter touch (which I thought I did before but tried even lighter today) and it produced much less dust (second pic). As you can see in the third pic it is literally piled up with dust, but this time I much better.

I also applied water and use a paintbrush to make an underpainting, rather than just blending for the underpainting

The sky was difficult as it was hard to get a nice mix between blended enough but still with a slight texture

Sorry for spamming the sub tonight, this is the last post I promise. Here is two pics of the dust. I did use a small, soft brush to get rid of the top layers and start again because I didn’t like how it was going, but even before I did that there was a LOT of dust.

And my pastels were just being eaten up so much!

For this one I used colourfix paper. Which I’ve used before and it didn’t do this. So I’m not sure why

At least the colours are closer this time?

Also both paintings tonight have chewed up my pastels with a LOT of dust. For the first one I used homemade colourfix primed paper, for this one I used actual colourfix paper. I’ve used both the primer and proper paper before and never this much dust. I am doing the same technique as usual. Any idea why this is happening?

MTried to recreate the second image (either by James Quinn or unknown author: https://youtu.be/0yx3XtfM5EI?si=fZl2phSC0GbRNIaj). Was hard because I’m a soft pastel beginner and have never created a painting without following a tutorial before.

Originally wanted it to be in the same style as the third pic I painted by following a Karen Margulis tutorial. But Part way through it was turning more abstract than intended so leant into that (mainly because I didn’t ow how to fix it to the intended style lol).

Would love any tips or feedback to improve :)

I know I need to add more contrast/darks and would like to try again using colours closer to the reference pic.