Pastels is one of my most fun, complex, and innovative compositions. Many years ago, while in my L.A. loft a collector asked me what I meant by hot and cold colors and I showed him my pastel boxes divided into hot and cold colors. For fun I tossed a hot magenta pastel nub into the "cool" box.  The visual affect on me was almost an unbearable overload of color sensation. Many artists love color for its own sake and can spend hours just looking and the hundreds of colored pastels on offer at their art store. I thought it would be conceptually fun to have the subject the soft Rembrandt pastels and paint them in oil! I am extremely proud of the way I handled the unique color, form, and spatial relationship of each and everyone of the pastels.