Illuminating the darkness

I loved the quiet light of Golden lamps,
Reverent silence around her,
And, secret is full of expectations,
How often I release your canopy,
Do not sleep on soft down leaning his hand
And thought: this night guardian angel
Come in silence to talk with me?..

( Yakov Polonsky, "the light of the lamp gold" )

The drawing is executed on coarse watercolor paper in mixed media - pastel on sketch gouache. Fragments used Golden petal backlighting picture. The image of "patinated" in order to give the picture a more aged look. 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.