Pastel on paper
Signed on the front.
This was part of my first series on flowers. I thought that the black paper would recede into the background, allowing the flowers to totally engage the viewer’s attention which fortunately succeeded in most cases, but I did manage to demonstrate that pastels are not as opaque as I had believed, so pictures that used a lot of yellow had the vibrancy of their colours drained by the underlying black. Fortunately, there is no yellow in this picture.