Waterfall Pastel Art

This time another landscape exercise from Colin Bradley's lessons.

This one was very hard. The bushes in the background are a challenge at any time. then there were the rocks. I couldn't seem to follow what Colin was doing and mine was very different to his in the end. What he started out with and which I did, was patches of pale colour which were then blended into the paper with a colour shaper - all looking very vague and a bit of a mess. then he started shaping the rocks and that's where I got lost. What I ended up doing was rounding off my rocks that looked all angular and darkening the areas between them. I was just about to rip it up in frustration when the phone rang. When I got up and  looked back on it from a distance it looked like real rocks! It was all done by sheer accident - me just messing around with the shapes because I didn't like the angular look of what I had drawn originally. So I started scribbling with a variety of colours, darkening the shadows between the rocks, rounding the rocks off and adding some highlights just below the darkest parts and miraculously it looked a bit more real.

Then of course I messed it up again with the waterfalls.....