This pastel painting of Hambleden Mill is probably my favourite of the Colin Bradley beginner kits that I learned from and again uses only six pastel pencil colours to achieve the result. You can see my original version HERE. I actually did this again a couple of years later and the difference showed how much I’d improved over that time; so much so that the second version was sold – to someone who actually lived in Hambleden Mill at the time! This third version, as with Cottage on a Cliff, was one I returned to when I was trying to get back into my art again in 2021. I needed to start with some familiar paintings just to see whether I could still do them after a long time away, but I also wanted to experiment a bit with additional colours, some new pastel paper and different pastel pencils.
Medium: Pastel
Size: 33 x 25 cm
Materials: SAA practice pastel paper. Derwent pastel pencils
Mountboard Colour: Light Blue
Date: 20/03/2021