How Anna was able to sustain such a serene expression over hours at the Candid Arts Trust Saturday session is a mystery, but I hope I was at least able to capture a sense of it. A suprisingly challenging pose to tackle, that took me well over an hour just to map out before I was even able to contemplate any details. Despite bringing an arsenal of pastels, pencils, coloured papers, and assorted gimmicks, I ended up working almost entirely in a dark, tinted charcoal and white pastel pencil on grey, with some last-minute additions of red and blue pastel pencil to represent her excellent hair colour and the red walls of the studio, to help draw the figure away from the background.