Striking!

Thanks Steve.

Working with ink and oil pastels is quite sensuous.

There's the unverifiable story about one of the old masters, lauded for his flesh tones, Rubens I think, that he's start mixing his paints, pinch his model, mix his paints, pinch his model, etc., until he'd want to pinch the paint, then he'd touch brush to canvas.

One gets kind of the same feeling hand blending pastels on Bristol vellum paper.

Don’t get yourself thrown out of the Life Drawing Class, Jim.

Good advice Steve. ;-)