Promised Pastel Painting of Aspen Memories

I promised I would show you the process from this pastel painting.  I worked on it about 3 days and that is not good for me.  My thought yesterday morning was to wipe it off and have another go over the ghost image.  Instead, I brushed off some of the area where the pastel was too thick and some parts that I had overworked and were too "busy".  My next piece will be better and with practice my learned methods are returning. 

When I don't paint for a while, I forget my routine and halfway through I think that I forgot something and sure enough.......

I started on a Pastelbord that had a bucket of strawberries on it.  They were painted from a photo on creativespark and I don't like using other peoples photos.

Because red is sort of a good base for green trees I didn't worry about the shadow image when I wiped it off.

I put on some additional colors and wet it down for the under painting.

I meant to take more photos in progress but you know me.  This was about midway through.  I had the green too bright and the mountains too dark.

It is always good to look at the painting in black and white, upside down, with a mirror or face it to the wall and look a day or so later.

Aspen Memories
Pastel on Pastelbord
14 x 11 inches

I used a couple of different photos for reference and memories of Angel Fire, Colorado and Montana.  I'm pretty sure this is done.  It will have to set for a while as always, but I really don't like do overs.  I'm pretty much once and done.