This piece drove me crazy! I recently moved from NY to Florida and I couldn't find my Art supplies so I purchased a new set of oil pastels. They were horrible! I didnt like the texture the feel; the way they blended I was really going to tear this piece up. Thankfully Bill found my pastels and the painting was saved, sad to say the pastels, costly as they were didn't meet with the same fate. PS, my friend Renata knew I was in the process of a new painting a month ago, when I was going crazy with it, I told her that I tore it up! She responded with "What do you mean you tore it up" Thank you for the comment, it would have been a gonna!