Finished this little doodle piece with soft pastels yesterday, featuring the beautiful @christianadj . 🌸🌼🌸 . I had a gift card to a craft store just waiting to be spent, and so I took the opportunity to test out a new medium! And Oh. My. Gosh. Soft pastels, where have you been all my life. 😍 This is my first attempt using soft pastels, and I'm sure I have a bunch to learn with technique. But just the feeling of that chalk blending softly under your finger and against the soft paper, it's extremely soothing! 😍 I may end up with endless pages of just colourfully blended soft pastels for no reason other than that feeling! 😂😂 . 🌸🌼🌸 . I love this exploration of new mediums, and trying something new regularly really helps me keep focus in a weird, roundabout way. Plus, the added inspiration I get from discovering new mediums just fuels my work even more. But if I'm being really, really honest, I'm just chasing that art class high of exiting new projects and mediums each week. I regularly go back to my high school art classes in my mind to remember what I have worked with, what I haven't. What I would like to revisit (hello scratch art, I'm looking at you 😄) and what I want to expand on. So I'm basically trying to set up my little studio to be all that my high school art class was and more. 😄 Sorry for the long rambling moment. Thank you for reading this far! 💖 . . . . . . . . . . . #softpastels #artistloft #figuremodels #nudemodel #newmedium #softpastelbeginner #colourpop #nudeart #empoweringart #bodypositivity #feminineart #femininity #empoweringwomen #beautiful #empoweringwomen #artoninstagram #acrylic #etsyart #etsyshop #etsygifts #shopsmall #shoplocal #shopsmallbusiness #shopetsy #supportsmallbusiness #supportlocal https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYRN27nGhb/?igshid=1vij5qcelsdxo
