Melting Snow - Day 4

Only 0.6 hours today, but at least I followed through on my resolution to work on this piece every day this week. Three days down; two more to go! It was an emotional challenge to break out the sticks and start working with them on top of the pan pastels; I was worried about ruining it all. Once I move from pan pastels to sticks, I can't go back because they saturate the tooth of the paper too much.

But now I've broken that barrier. I started laying in some whites on the ice, and I think I like how it's going. Now that I've started, it should be easier to keep going tomorrow.