What’s in your pastel collection?
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?…
-
-
Landscape painting with pastels | Riverside Pastel
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…
-
Recycling a plein air painting and a vacation
So the rain finally stopped. Excited, I bundled up in damn near every article of clothing that I had brought with me. Slinging my bag of painting gear over my…
-
Pine Trees and the Golden Hour | plein air sketch to studio landscape painting
I have noticed a lot of blog posts about the golden hour or magic hour in plein air painting. I think the best, and the one with a great little…
-
Pine Tree Clearing; pastel landscape painting work in progress.
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…
-
Blue Pot, Orange Begonia
Today, I was lucky enough to have a few uninterrupted hours to get into the studio. I thought this would be a great chance to revisit this wonderful potted begonia….
-
floral | Painting | pastel | Still life
Forsythia and Copper Canister, final
I do love reaching the end of a painting! I had such a wonderful time working on this piece. It has been far too long a break from pastel this…
-
Forsythia and Copper Canister, update #2
I’ve been digging through my boxes of pastels to find colors that I can use to unify areas of the painting. To do this, I try to find a color…
-
color | floral | Painting | pastel | Still life | Work in Progress
Forsythia and Copper Canister, work in progress update
I finally got back over to the studio today. We have been moving from an apartment in the Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, to our first house, over in Saint…
-
floral | Painting | pastel | Still life
Forsythia and Copper Canister, work in progress.
Today I thought it would be great to have another dose of spring. I have loved forsythia since I was a kid. I have some great memories of a forsythia bush…
-
Pastel Field
Still more longing for spring… Here in Minnesota, we have had a few days with above normal temperatures. Then, things dipped back down into the single digits. This little painting was done…
-
Pastel Pines
When I woke up this morning, it was 10 degrees below zero. I decided that I couldn’t dwell on how cold it was since I was nice and warm in…
