Start talking shop with anyone who works with pastels, and you’ll very quickly get to one of the most popular questions, “What brand of pastels do you use?” My answer? I work with a HUGE variety of soft and hard pastel brands. My collection began with a set of Rembrandts that I inherited from my [...]
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I flip through a lot of art magazines. I look at magazines geared towards collectors and magazines geared towards other artists. I always find it fascinating to read about how a painter begins their work. There are the lucky few. The idea just seems to fall out of them. Sure–maybe they do some preparatory work that didn’t make [...]
To start the above pastel painting, I pulled out a less than successful oil plein air study I did in 2007. The nice thing about using an older, not-so- stellar paint study, is that I’ve found myself less inclined to stay very true to the plein air study, and more willing to make changes for the good of [...]
