Today I'm depicting an early spring landscape with a melting snow and the setting sun hiding behind the branches of pine trees.
So, begin to study.

• Take sandpaper with grit 1000 (water-resistant).
  
• Mark a sketch with a pastel pencil of a neutral colour. Don't use graphite or coloured pencils for that! Pastel will be hardly applied.
  
• Work with a black pastel chalk to apply the basic tone.

• Then use cool colours for the trees in the background.

• The farther from the sun, the colder the colours.

• You can use coal and pastel pencils for the final touches.

• I don't fix pastel pictures.
  Properly frame the work with a passepartout or cover it with tracing paper to store it.
  You can see all details of this study in the video tutorial below.
  Pleasant viewing!

Materials:
* Rembrandt dry pastel 120
* Derwent pastel pencils
* charcoal pencil
* sandpaper 1000