"Clay pots"

Now a slight change of the topic. This time still life instead of portraits. Here you can see black clay pots on the wooden shelf. I'd like to inform you that such clay pots are black not because somebody painted them but because of wood used to set fire in a stove. What I mean by this is that wood of pine tree which is 300 years old is used here. This is the effect . That was about the method and now about the drawing. Here I used ink and soft pastel. Thanks to ink black is very deep and pastel gives reflections on the pots. I'm not entirely pleased with the result. I think that oil pastel would be better with the drawing. Its colours don't fade away and if they are too striking you can make it milder with terpentine. However, my problem is to get such oil pastels which won't be too vivid, 'cause I'd like to achieve delicate, sort of pastel like reflections.

Have a nice day, Ela.