Carey,
Lovely, lovely aloe! Well blended.
See, I told you that you would getting better with each attempt. The aloes show your progress.
I have never really attempted pastels, well except once with some 20 year-old hard pastels I found stored away. Yikes, what an experience that was. So, I cannot address whether the paper or the pastels gave you a bad experience on this one.
Not really able to see that you struggled. Looks effortlessly done.
aloha
mea
