Bluebells & Forget me nots. Unison colour soft pastels en plein air’

Spring flowers have to be painted quickly or they soon vanish! Plus having good weather to work in en plein air is at a premium here. As many enjoyed my last and most recent film using pastels on the Magnolias I thought I would do a follow up using a more traditional method of blocking and blending , this time, on Canford paper. This scene particularly caught my eye, not only for this lovely puddle of cerulean for me not, but the much more purple / ultramarine bluebells in the foreground enabling a play between the warm and cooler hues. I decided to take this work in a more figurative path and into detail as it would have been easier to simplify this mass of texture, but I wanted too show how working from loose to tight enables you to go as far as you wish and stop when you wish.