Building a Base

I am using the gouache as a base upon with I will apply hard pastel along with pastel pencil.

Earlier today, I was speaking to a fellow artist and she was not familiar with this being tried before. Although artist have used gouache in its watery form with pastel on top, she id d not think anyone had tried using it thick and then using pastel. interesting. I tried to research what she thought on Google and she might be correct.