Day one hundred and forty-three: Yesterday when I started my lily of the valley drawing, I had intended it to be in color. But once I started sketching with pencil, I decided to stick with the graphite. Tonight I started with oil pastel because I still wanted to try and capture the colors, and more importantly the shape of the flowers and the shadows cast by the stem. The black background reminds me of certain floral motifs rendered in pietra dura, a form of mosiac in which carefully selected and cut semi-precious stones are pieced together to look like a painting.
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