A longing for colour

Fresh with all the practice with mark-making and the blending skills that I've started to acquire from using monochrome media like graphite and charcoal, I started to look longingly at my pastels and all those yummy colours that seemed to be looking all forlorn in their boxes. This was painted in about an hour using Sennelier soft pastels - I make no apologies for using the word painted: no brushes were used but applying raw pigment with painterly strokes is painting after all ... isn't it?

We're off to London (or The Smoke as we Northeners like to refer to it)  to see a few ageing AOR bands at Wembley Arena soon. Anyone want to show their age and remember Styx, Foreigner or Journey, LOL? I was hoping to perhaps do a little sketching or even stop off at the Tate to see the big watercolour exhibition but it looks like we won't have enough time:) Oh well, there's always next weekend.  Have a good one!

PS. The Wembley Arena gig was absolutely awesome. Despite getting to London early, and finding a really nice place to eat near Covent Garden before we made our way to Wembley, we still managed to fall foul of the engineering works on the tube and miss the first few minutes of the opening band.  It was a hot day in London outside and absolutely baking inside the arena but certainly well worth it :)
 

Imagination wood