Down from the Cripple Path

And for once, this rather considerable enlargement is doing it few favours, to be quite honest. It looks better smaller - even so: it&#39;s still an advance, considering what I&#39;ve been able to do with pastel before. <br /><br />By the way, Cripple Path IS what the walk is called; I understand it doesn&#39;t actually relate to disabled people, and being one, I can tell you that it&#39;s not a walk you should undertake if you&#39;re not sure of your footing: I can only tackle it in very dry conditions when the ground is baked hard (so not this year, then). I got about half way up, then retraced my steps. This is on Niton Undercliff, on the Isle of Wight.

Robert...(Who is my devoted &#39;Robert&#39; follower partner? Perhaps the two of us should form a fan club? )<br />I knew immediately why you named it as you did (descriptive word omitted) I would not venture down it on pain of...what? Fractures, sprains, vertigineous attacks? Suffice it to say i would look at it and think &quot;What beautiful views that descent that promises, but perhaps another day......!&quot;<br /><br />Actually, Robert, it is very good!

A great pastel and so well worked Robert

This a very good painting Robert :)

Surprised to see that this is in pastel Robert! I automatically thought that it was in Oil! Lovely lights and darks to this and I like the description of Cripple path too. <br />Looking forwArd to seeing more pastel paintings.

Well I like it Robert, it&#39;s the kind of loose approach that I like whatever the medium but in pastel, as this is, it&#39;s well suited. I have A pastel somewhere, I&#39;ll look it out...then you will see how NOT to do it.

Thank you all: I think the point here is that I had given up on ever achieving anything which I could actually show in pastel - I just could NOT come to terms with it, I don&#39;t know why. But, if you keep going, and take the trouble to understand the necessary processes, and don&#39;t give up at the first (or second or third) hurdle(s), you just never know what you can achieve. This is just a sketch which more or less came off, but the point is that I can see how to take it further now: I could take this through to completion but don&#39;t really want to because it&#39;s a study for an oil I have on the easel: it&#39;s too small to make a finished picture of it, but I now know it can be done, and that&#39;s important.<br /><br />So - you may struggle in your chosen medium; indeed you may struggle for years; it may seem impossible and entirely beyond you; but - take the trouble to learn, and study what you&#39;re doing, and it can all come together: the truth is that it&#39;s taken me years to get here, but whatever the merits or otherwise of this painting, I now know (at last) how to do it. I don&#39;t think pastel will ever be my favoured medium, but at least I&#39;ve got an idea of how to go forward with it, and that&#39;s important for me.

You&#39;ll have really got the light singing out in this pastel Robert - it&#39;s a lovely image and I think you should persevere with pastel if the results are going to be s good as this.

I like this one Robert just something about iit .

Well from the other follower ;) I think this has great potential Robert, I like the sunlight streaming through the trees. You have caught highlights nicely with that lovely yellow pastel.

This is a lovely piece Robert done in your own inimitable style. Carry on like this and you&#39;ll soon be writing an e book on pastels.