Mad ACEO: Pan Pastel

Our theme this week was pan pastels!
This was the theme last week before the last-minute change.

I LOVE pan pastels.
Here are all my trays except for 2, laid out for painting.

I painted a cave in 5 parts.

First, I colorfix primed 5 ACEO size bristol.  Then I taped them together and stuck them to my drawing board.  Here is my sketch in conte.

First layer in pan pastel.  I sprayed it with fixative.

The final layer is Rembrandts and pans.

I worked on all 5 as one painting, while taking care to make sure each mini-composition still worked.

Full Cave

2.5 x 17.5

And each section of the cave

2.5 x 3.5

Cave 1

Cave 2

Cave 3

Cave 4

Cave 5

Carey's are here! :)