Well, this was a real learning process……don’t buy cheap paper, even for practice! I saw that the paper in the pad had texture on both sides, but I thought it looked different and might be fun to work with. (I tend to work on the smooth side of Mi-Tientes, etc.) Little did I know that the texture was like a million tiny knife slits which made it difficult to cover the color of the paper (weird grey/brown), but completely controlled how the pastel worked into it. Lots of rubbing and smudging went on. As soon as I find the pad on the shelf with my other pastel pads, it is going to join the various items collected in the land dump where it belongs.
In the recycling bin, you mean!
You still built a well-composed scene,I think.
I HATE inking on toothy paper.
I stand corrected. The recycle bit it will be! Thanks for the positive comment!
It has an impressionist quality probably due to the smudging, etc. It may have felt impossible to work with, but the result is quite pretty.