Ellen Eagle's book Pastel Painting Atelier appeared at my local library and I found it very inspiring. Her work (at least in the book) is mostly portraits; her drawing is lovely and her pastel technique both skillful and somehow relaxed.
It was fun to work with pastels again after several years; there's a lot I've forgotten and a lot I never knew. But I discovered that after working with neutral grays in oils, I really wanted more neutralized colors in pastel, especially low-chroma red-oranges ("brown"). So I tried to make some. But that's another post.
