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Very well done. Extremely tricky to paint a dog face on like this with tongue on a pant - without it looking wrong! <br /><br />Your drawing skills are great. A few deeper tones and sharper lines in the fur would really make it look great (if you don&#39;t mind me saying so).<br /><br />Technique - crack the pastels, use the edges and less blending with the finger will do the trick for sharper needed details. Pastel pencils will also help sharpened with a scalpel to a nice fine point.<br /><br />The more great pastel paintings I see like this the more I&#39;m encouraged to get on with it and paint our own dog...so thanks!<br /><br />

Hi Robert thank you so much, its very kind of you to reply AND give me some much appreciated pointers. One of the reasons I use the velour is because I can&#39;t seem to get and keep sharp points on any pastel pencils. I use Faber Castell as I have found sampling some of the others they don&#39;t seem to &#39;work&#39; on velour (?)<br />Thank you mentioning the needed darker tones, I have been very wary of &#39;going dark&#39; but I am beginning to understand how effective it could be.<br />Thanks again.

I can almost feel his breath its beautiful.

Nice work Joan. I do agree with you about trying to get pastel pencils to work on velour. Maybe the ones we are using are just too hard.