"Sunset on the Gulf of Finland. August. Fluorescent #2", dry pastel, cardboard Pastelmat 40x30cm, Aug-Sept 2024, Asiya Konechenkova, WizmArts

Finished the fluorescent sunset. Once I was driving by the bay and stopped to admire the sunset. Neither my phone, nor, as it turned out, my hand, could not display the beauty of the moment, which gave the sunset on the daily sleep of the light. In general, I will continue to work on this story. But already on a new sheet. Fluorescent reflects light wonderfully, it turned out to give exactly the glow that I was looking for in the materials.

Yes, by the way, pastelists, I noticed that if you put a layer of fixative and continue to work for a day, then everything is fine, you can put additional layers. And I decided to put a dense layer of fixative on the dense lower layers of the one to finish light. And was able to return to work with this painting only after 3 weeks. The result saddened me. The fixative killed the porosity of the pastelmat abrasive. So only one layer further. These are such experimental conclusions of an unintentional experiment.