Waiting For Mama's Return

Pastel with underpainting of oil and turpenoid wash. The art inspiration was from my photograph of an actual baby fawn left by its mother for a number of hours under one of our shade trees on our 4 1/2 acres property while I assume the mother was out feeding. The fawn was very trusting of my taking a photograph but I didn't stay long so not to disturb it. The fawn was later gone with its mother probably into the nearby woods. It is safe on our property and we have noted a couple other fawns in the past left like this though this was my first photo opportunity.