Practice with pastels...

I received 3 dozen roses for my 35th wedding anniversary, and I wanted to try and draw them.  I tried colored pencil first, but that didn’t work out as well as I would have liked, but when I tried the pastels, I was much happier.  I’m never sure though, if I want a pastel drawing to be loose or nicely detailed... maybe I wind up with something in the middle.

                                                    Pastel on 6x6 inch pastelmat paper.