Today I worked on sketching out my idea on my canvas and then I started to colour it. I am using oil pastels but now that I have started colouring I realized that the oil pastels are really hard to work with. The first thing I noticed is that the pastels smudge so I have to hold the pastel in my hand a different way. I have noticed that if I start on the left hand side it won't smudge as much because my hand won't be touching the pastel on the canvas. The other thing I have noticed is that if I start at the top my hand won't be smudging the pastel. I find that the lighter colours like yellow are hard to use because it will pick up little pieces of other colours and it will mix in with the yellow. If you are using pastels I have a little trick to get rid of the little chunks that come off of the pastel. What I do is I take a paint brush and I lightly brush the pieces off and if that does not work you can just smudge the pieces with your finger.