Picture: I asked the cuckoo

I asked the cuckoo,
How many years will I live...
The tops of the pines trembled.
A yellow ray fell into the grass.
But not a sound in the thicket ....
I'm going home,
And the cool wind is undead
My forehead is hot.

(A. Akhmatova, "I asked the cuckoo")

The painting is made in the style of photorealism in the author's mixed technique, with pastel pencils according to the sketch in colored ink. 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.