This may be an odd posting, but I realized it is also part of the creative process and my journey - the mistakes and the abandoned projects. I started this pastel study and was interupted in the middle. I now have difficulties starting again. I am bewildered by my own reaction. In a way I think it is an interesting picture, with the cool and warm colours, but at the same time it is not a very realistic depiction of what it would be like at the top of a submarine tower. Taking the sun heght, followinging a convoy, on even the best of sunny days, one wouldn't wear the parade gear ... the other problem is the approach I took: does one start with the high lights and the dark areas, or the far away and the focal areas? Do you build the picture in layers or in sections? There are so many ways to approach a picture, but for it to work, it needs to resonate within you too, and this one didn't ... so I stopped.
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