Sutton Medieval Bridge Pastels Snow Scene

The last piece of original artwork that I uploaded was a Pastel Pencil drawing of the Sutton Medieval Packhorse Bridge in the village of Sutton, England.  That pastel artwork was completed on thick 160g orange pastel paper (see earlier post).  The pastel paper colour was allowed to show through when representing the Sutton packhorse bridge and other parts of the pastel pencil drawing.  The second piece that I completed over Easter 2015 was another A3 size image of the same bridge (shown below).   This new image was constructed using soft pastels (a combination of artist quality Schmincke, Jacksons, and now out of production narrow Rowney pastel sticks). This representation of the Sutton Medieval Bridge has a slightly different perspective than the image that I completed earlier over this Easter weekend, and of course unlike the Summer scene in the former, this one is in the grip of winter.

Sutton Medieval Packhorse Bridge, Sutton
Soft Pastels on Red Pastel Paper
A3 Size

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Sutton Packhorse Bridge

This is my first attempt at using Pastel Pencils instead of recent move towards using Soft Pastel 'sticks' for a piece of artwork.  It  was drawn using various Derwent Pastel Pencils from a wooden box set of 48 that I recently bought for detailing the broader strokes of the larger pastel sticks, but alas pastel pencils seem to have a harder binder to hold the pastel inside the wood of the pencil, and therefore the pencils are not that good in my hands for detailing, as they indent into earlier strokes.  This artwork of the Medieval Bridge at Sutton was drawn onto Daler Rowney 'Murano' 406x305mm size 160 g/m2 warm colour pastel paper with the chosen base colour allowed to show through in the final piece. 

The Medieval Sutton 'Packhorse' Bridge and ford, in the village of Sutton in Bedfordshire.