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This painting was done completely with pastels on PastelMat. I blocked in and layered the majority of this painting using hard polychromos pastel blocks by Faber-Castell. From there I added some smaller shapes of the grasses and coral with Caran d'Ache pastel pencils. And finished the whole thing with Unison pastels for final highlights and shadows. I love the Ocean so this was a very meditative process for me. Imaging the water movement, and how it would effect the environment and change a person's perspective of depth if they were underwater.
