Halloween

my thoughts exactly...

A girl - my painting

I've been learning how to paint portraits in soft pastels.

Here's my first attempt - still unfinished, as it always happens - with pastel pencils to scale.

Someday when I'm brave enough, I'm gonna fix some issues in this painting. And that'd be a great test of how to fix errors in pastel pencils.

Below is a photo made from another angle (and at earlier stage of painting), but it shows the real tone of the painting. My phone tends to make everything look cooler than it is.

Tahtali 2365m

People had talked me into visiting a 2365m point - or rather a mountain - lately.
What can I say? Actually, it's rather boring to be at that platform as a tourist. The view is good, but after initial 30 minutes of awe you settle down and start to think 'what am I| going to do here for another hour?'.
And - worst of all - there's no place to sit down outside the restaurants. Therefore you're waiting for the cable-car down as a way to deal with boredom.

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I haven't been writing here for a long time,
but lots of things have happened.

Still true to promise to myself not to talk politics if possible, I'd try to find other things to talk about.