Pastel Rose

Here's a rare (for me) traditional art piece using pastel pencils (and a watercolor pencil) on black pastel paper. All together it took about 2 hours for this version (though this is the third attempt... )

This is a photograph of the original taken with my digital camera, though I'll need to make a proper scan of it eventually (after I get around to spraying on the fixative, so I don't get my scanner messy! ) I modified the contrast slightly in Photoshop to make the image look closer to the original.

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