This painting is on La Cart Pastel Card. I learned how to do pastels on this surface. I remember thinking how wonderful it was at the time. Since then I has learned the things I don't like about it. For one. It is not waterproof. I cant tell you how many times I have been outside painting for an hour or two and had a drop of liquid sap or dew fall off a tree directly on to my painting! Ugh! There goes the surface and it is impossible to repare completely. The other issue I have is the grit size. It is like painting on sand that you would dig up yourself and, that sand tends to want to move about on the surface. I can think of times when I might like to choose this surface but for the most part, Its not for.
As an aside, last night around 6:30 pm a very very large coyote appeared right in the middle of this very field. It looked very healthy with a good shiny coat. It was extremely light in color. At first we thought it was a deer. It is very unusual for a wild dog to expose themselves in the day light for such a long periods of time. This day I saw the coyote, two deer and a mother turkey with chicks.
Here is painting number 13.
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