Woman in the Cradle of a Cave

This is another drawing that I didn’t have time to finish in the half hour pose, but it’s evolved from a model lying on a mattress in a grubby studio to this. It’s gone through many stages and layers of pastel, until it became a woman peacefully sleeping in a cave which seems to enclose her in a circle of protection. It feels very restful to me. Ironic that my pictures lately are of sleep, when I don’t sleep well at all. I wish.