Landscape Pastel - Exploring Colour

This experiment began with a trip to the art supply store.

I had been using a rather basic set of student colours and felt it was time upgrade!

Starting with a limited selection of Nupastel and Rembrandt colours, 
I chose some muted tones,

white, cream and flesh (light oxide red), 
warm and cool grays,soft blue, violet,
 an expanded range of greens (from turquoise to bluish green) 
and one pure green.

This selection was based on this scene I photographed one foggy morning.

A quick pastel sketch proved successful in establishing an interesting colour scheme.

The final picture was a joy to work on 

as good quality pastels are much easier to handle and allow layering of colour.

My photography skills are rather basic 

so some of the subtlety of colour is lost.

But it was a successful experiment 

in becoming more sensitive to the

"color in the landscape".