Since I've kind of given up on soft pastels due to the dust in the studio (mine is a bit small). A friend suggested oil pastels.
I've began to experiment with them and they handle more like oil paint than pastels. Instead of rubbing the dust around on the paper, you smear the oil pastel and can even use solvents to move it around like oil paint.
I chose a reference photo from the www.wetcanvas.com website's reference library. The reference photo didn't have the monks in it but I felt the painting demanded the monks.
The pastels were Gray Pas and Erengi and the support was a gessoed masonite panel on which I placed an extra layer of gesso and pumice. I realized that the pumice was not necessary and actually interfered with the blending. The painting is 11 by 14 inches.
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