For the first painting, I used Pastels to recreate a scene at Blithewold Gardens in Bristol, Rhode Island. I sketched the image and then began to place blocks of color and built from there using different Pastel Brushes. I wanted to add more texture to the trees and so drew some little textured sets of 'needles', captured them as dabs and then used them to apply the pastels in the areas of the trees.

For the roof of the gazebo, I captured a little rectangular dab and textured the roof with it. If I had not convinced myself to stop, I could still be painting on this image.