Pattern:Shade of pale

Pages cute fingers again revealed;
I again umile and tremble ready
To the wind or the hand of a stranger not sronila
Dried, one I color led.

Oh, how small everything! From the sacrifice of life of a whole,
From these ardent sacrifices and deeds of the saints. -
A secret longing in the soul of the orphaned
Yes, shadows from the pale petals dry.

But they cherish my memory;
Without them, all the past is one cruel nonsense
Without one reproach, without them, - one curst,
And there is no forgiveness and reconciliation there!

(A. FET, 1884, " Dried flowers").

Drawing made with pastel pencils on velour professional paper VELOUR PASTEL HAHNEMUHL black. The paper has a velvety surface that is well covered with pastel. Due to this quality of paper, pastel drawing look like a painting. Halftone colors change depending on lighting. Feature of pastels is that the ink mass is the individual pigment particles, reflected from which the light scatters in different directions, giving a special colorful layer luchistoi, velvety, specific "pastel" softness.
Photo, unfortunately, does not convey the authenticity of the picture. The richness of the colors is lost on velvet paper surface during image capture.