This is a pastel image is of my wife when she was a little girl. Ain't she just as cute as a bug's ear?

This piece is wrought with some colored pencil over a photostatic transfer from an old photo and enhanced with colored pastels. Pardon the perspective but it was necessary to avoid the glare on the glass of the framed piece.

Pastel 'rubs' form some background for the image, which is on pastel paper. The rub technique is simply some powdered pastel chalk rubbed into the paper with a tissue or a cotton pad. The use of straight-edge masks helps add interest to the cloud-like gradients of the 'rubs'.