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Message: <blockquote data-quote="solitaryVSong" data-source="post: 1537086" data-attributes="member: 77930">I think I'm finished with this new pastel and charcoal version of the Piping Plovers that I did in watercolor a week ago. It's very overcast today and the light is bad so I've had a hard time actually 'seeing' the results. A brighter light may convince me to go back into this.I wanted to get both the brilliant light of the sand and the strong color contrast of blue and ochre that was in the sand, depending on whether the sand was in shadow. Eventually I had to take some artistic license and make the top area darker and richer in  color than it really was. Otherwise the drawing just seemed a bit washed out and dull.Though I've done a lot of heavily worked charcoal drawings I haven't done that many that  combine pastel and charcoal. So this is still a learning experience. But I'm still pretty  happy with the results.</blockquote>