This piece is chalk pastel on paper (from a regular sketch
pad to be exact). I was young and the hour given for the lunch break in school
was all mine to fill. Knowing this I flipped through a magazine and came across
a watch ad with this scene in the background and I decided to challenge myself
to do this piece in chalk pastel and believe me I didn’t know how challenging
it would be until I started. Now when I start something I have a tendency to
not finish it because an artist’s feelings for the piece in front of them can
sometimes take a roller coaster ride.
So after a week or so of working on the piece I lost the zeal
for the challenge which resulted in me tucking away the drawing for about eight
months. I stumbled across it while I was sorting through my sketch pads and
found it to be in very good condition. Sometimes we need a bit of motivation so
after giving myself a pep talk and a pat on the back I sat down day after day
and drew in every leaf and every crack on the sanctuary until it was finally
coming to an end. When I got around to the mystery lady I realize that the
chalk pastels were too big to get the job done so I resorted to using colour
pencils which took me back a few years (one can never get too big for colour
pencils and crayons).
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