Pear Conference Pastel I rather like the idea

I rather like the idea of this it would provide with some interesting I am sure here in Devon

The famous Officina Profumo Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella have a scent named “Melograno”  described as an “oriental blend with citrus and spicy notes”

This tiny work started as a print from the earth monoprints of reeds

I used the dominant lines from my field sketches to layout on some Fabriano paper the landscape using gesso and a broad brush

to carry a few drawing things and various papers cut to the sizes I might like

Pear Conference Pastel I rather like the ideaConference Pears placed on white paper and drawn with marker pens. I enjoyed the shapes of these lovely pears and placed them in a sort of dance I suppose. It is fun to build layers of colours with these particular pens, in doing so the softness of the shadows becomes more descriptive. I am told that this variety was developed in Britain by Thomas Francis Rivers at his nursery in a place called Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire. There was a National