Reworked an older pastel

This past week I sorted through my boxes of finished pastels and picked out a few that I realized I could do more work on and make better. The first of these is 'Tributary', from a photo I took between Fredericton and Saint John last winter. This is what it looked like the last time I 'finished' it.

This is what it looks like now, although the colours didn't come out quite right in the photo. The colours are actually truer to the photo above, but as you can see, I put more detail in the snow clumps and water, and removed a lot of the branches on the left hand side.

Tributary, 2008 soft pastel, 7 x 10 inches, $75 unframed