Sea Gulls Work in Progress

I started on my first sea gull painting today so I thought I'd do it as a work in progress on the blog. The painting is 9 x 12 on Wallis paper. This is a photo of my first layer with Nupastels. These two gulls are waiting patiently for me to throw up another piece of pizza crust. I was tearing the crust into tiny bits so I could get the most mileage from it...everytime I threw another piece, more gulls would fly over. At one point there had to have been over 50 gulls...all different varieties too. I was so into the process of throwing crust and snapping photos that I didn't realize I threw the large piece of crust by mistake...ending my photo session early! But the gulls and I had fun!