Snow !

Inspired by Bill, I recently started to pick up pastel, trying to learn the nature of the medium. I'm using what i had in hand, some left over hard pastel, and some 'sticky' pastel, and some new soft pastel Bill introduced me to.
I found all different pastels can serve different functions. Like, soft pastel is easier to mix colors and blend, and sticky ones are good for strong high light or texture surfaces, then, the hard pastels can do good sharp edges and accents of shadows... It's kinda fun to experiment with different pastels, like having a set of different sized and hairs of brushes...
Here are a few sketches I've made during a short weekend trip to Tahoe, I wanted to try out painting snow!
which is a subject that I'm not so familiar with and didn't grew up with. the whole time I was so fascinated with the bright, high key colors of snow,
and some odd funny sceneries, like cars buried in deep snow, or grand scale of ski runs on the hills...