Get-out-of-jail-free Cards

One thing I learned quickly about pastels is that it offers get-out-of-jail-free cards. And, lots of them.

I went back to the Cellar painting today, to cash in one of these cards, and realized that I can shrink the over-sized rose clusters--that pastel allows you to correct mistakes. So, I split them down the middle, did some infill, and am MUCH happier with the result. At least the clusters are more proportionate to reality now, not super-sized freaks!

I also added a few of the Silver Lace plants on the right. Believed that area needed help, too: something taller; something varied from hosta things growing there.

Here are closeups of the two fixes which hopefully show that even amateurs like me can fix mistakes easily with pastels.