West Yellowstone Landscape at Sunset

Here is a landscape from a photo taken at the West Yellowstone entrance last year. It’s on a 5x7 piece of pastelmat. I do like the way this paper bites the pastel but I actually prefer the canson mi-teinte to this surface. I feel that I can tone the canson and then gesso it if I want to and it will still be quite a bit cheaper and for some reason I just feel more in control on the canson paper. I have done way more paintings on mi-teinte, though. So that could be the main reason for feeling that way.