I came across the photograph on which this painting is based while looking through a magazine, probably in a waiting room somewhere. I hadn’t done many paintings of people and this looked like a good one to try as it was mostly silhouette. This original version was done using my ‘comfort zone’ materials of Fabriano Ingres pastel paper and Faber Castell pastel pencils, but at this point I was experimenting with others so I did a second version fairly soon afterwards, this time using the Cretacolour pastel pencils I’d recently begun to try. It also gave me the chance to try out two different types of pastel pencil on the same type of paper before experimenting with different pastel surfaces. The colour ranges of the two brands of pencil are obviously different, which gave rise to the variation in the sunset colours. This is the first version.
No prizes for guessing where the play on words of the painting’s title comes from!

Medium: Pastel
Size: 29 x 37 cm
Materials: Fabriano Ingres pastel paper. Faber Castell pastel pencils
Mountboard Colour: Coffee