Pastel, paint and pencil

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I printed out two of the pictures in black and white, then played about with pencil, white oil pastel and paint. A bit messy but it passed the time instead of watching
TV. Sometimes I wonder what a painting or drawing is really for. Is it just playing with shapes and colours or trying to communicate something? When it succeeds in showing 'Hey, it's a beautiful, amazing world' maybe it works. Of course often paintings confront us, stretch us to reimagine something, show us something of the human condition, but lately I've just been making marks on paper, that's all.
(Later - I painted a cropped picture of the vase of flowers - forgetting that they were really white and pink - anyway painter's license to change anything! Then I altered the colour ofone using Picasa.)