My friend, Sandy just had to have her little dog, Shadow, who was about fifteen put to sleep. She feels really bad and I can relate because I just lost my Argus two weeks ago. I hope she likes this pastel I did. What a sweet dog!
Finished the foreground... added the arch on the right side. Finished! I'm fairly happy although if I were to do it again I'd make that tower off to the right a little more. I tried not to make it perfectly centered, even though it was in the photo, but I could have moved it more.
After getting away for a while I noticed something was not right... so I added more color to the water. I like this better. But I did have some trouble because I already had that tower there - so I had to re-draw some of it.
when I blended in the water I went across the little tower because I could still see my pencil lines and then it doesn't look like the water is in front of the tower. There's no 'halo' effect.