Water Lettuce II

This is a beautiful pastel painting. I love the reflection of the tree which leads the eye around the painting and the crisp cool colours with the warm touches of red.

Lovely work Kathleen, love everything about it, it's so pleasing to the eye, the balance is perfect.

I agree lovely smooth technique here from your pastels Kathleen what type did you use, oil sticks or the soft pastel sticks and pencils? You have achieved a great look to the water as well, and the colours are lovely and bright

Stunning. I love this one.

Thank you all for your kind comments! To answer your question, Ros, I used a combination of soft pastels (Rembrandt and Sennelier) and Nupastel hard sticks. I first laid down a Watercolor underpainting and then finished it in pastel. So much fun!

Really good, I like the composition very much.