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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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floral | pastel | Still life
Yellow Flowers in a Magenta World
I can’t even think of the last time I did a pastel still life. I had this composition all set up. I had a square oil painting panel out and…
