"New Pet" by Angela ´thedustyphoenix´ Apilado

I did this with pastels and side walk chalk at an annual chalk festival in a nearby town. Took around 6 hours and by the end of it I was really tired, which is why the background isn't quite as nice as it could've been. I'm pretty proud of how the little girl turned out, especially since I had to grind up multiple pastel hues on the sidewalk and mix them together with my fingers to get anything remotely close to a realistic skin tone. The colors on this were actually very vibrant, but th poor lighting and the dying batteries in my camera just refused to pick that up for me.

If you want a rough idea of how big this actually was, the little girls hands are almost the same exact size as my own, roughly 4 inches long by about 2 inces across (not counting thumb.