Edited in response to comments: Thanks everyone, for the encouragement. Just to clarify, they are photos of my painting. Pastels on paper. My first experiment with soft pastels (these are hard soft pastels though) which I bought by mistake during my hunt for good quality oil pastels. Since they cost a good amount of money [...]

But the truth is, I don’t plan to bring those brushes out until my son learns why mommy wouldn’t be happy if he touched them.

Anyway, I did bring my pastels outside yesterday and to say that I’m happy to be painting again would be an understatement.
I’m doing oil pastels now, the only painting medium I [...]