72 & 73 - The Trouble with Red

Red pastels are notoriously hard. Btw, when it comes to pastels, hard is bad. It tends to leave drag marks on the paper and sometimes even scratches.

But I was working on a piece where I wanted red and a lot of it.





So I snapped off a piece of red pastel and crushed it.






Then I scattered the crumbs on the piece and rubbed them in with my hand. Problem solved!