Day 19 - "30 Paintings in 30 Days"

"October Sky II", pastel, 24x24, $1500. framed

This painting is near completion and since I needed to post something for today, this it is.  It could still be a work in progress for awhile. If anyone has a critique, I would appreciate it!
This pastel is on Wallis sanded paper. I started out with a warm underpainting of several shades of raw sienna and burnt sienna. Brushed it in with rubbing alcohol. I was very interested in letting the warm glow of the underpainting come through the layers of gray in the sky. Also useful was the burnt sienna in the foreground as a mass of tone.

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