Why?

This is a pastel painting on canvas, and my first foray into these two art supplies working in tandum. And this little guy was only 6"x6".

I was approach to participate in a local Audubon Society fundraiser and I created this in less than a week (with a full time job outside of art) and donated it to the event.

I'm now working on stretched watercolor canvas and LOVE it. I am mixing a bit of watercolor under the pastel, and it is making for some really exciting effects.

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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
~ Henry Ward Beecher