Bricks...

I decided to try this one on watercolor paper, with a watercolor under painting ​that I would then go back in and draw on top of...

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And then I went over it with pastels....

​Complete?

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Not super satisfied with it... The colors are all too similar and I don't really like the cold-press watercolor paper. So I decided to start over completely, on gessoed paper this time:

I started over, didn't like the colors again, so I wiped it all down and bought some new (nu!)  pastels to try to solve this problem.

​done...

And it's "done". STILL not happy with it. Something about the colors and value structure is just not clicking on this one. 

I'm abandoning it.

I now have two drawings of the same subject, neither of which quite hits the spot. Time to move on to new endeavors. I love the subject, I'm just not executing it  to my satisfaction. Maybe I will try again later on... we'll see!