Regina Calton Burchett - Drawings & Pastels

Sketch done as a drawing exercise (and for fun!) along with other artists for Virtualsketch

Derwent colored pencil on the backside of Mi-Teintes black paper, measures 8.5″W x 6.5″H.
The photo is close to the original, but not quite as intense.  Please go to Virtualsketch blog to see all artists sketches!

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Out back in the wonderful evening light, about four and twenty black birds came to visit and bathe…
 

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One of my neighbors came over to draw this afternoon, so we drew an apple today…………

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I was out and about with my art friend Sally today and we saw these great red flowers in central Austin. Anyone know what they are?  (Thank you, Leslie - Schoolhouse lillies, she says!!)

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Sometimes I look at various framed pieces of art that I did several years ago - and still have on my walls - and see so many things I want to change. Colors that I wish I had chosen differently, a pastel stroke (or many) here or there that I should have omitted or applied, [...]

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When I was in high school, my family had land outside of Kalkaska, Michigan. At the back of the property was a circle of trees where I liked to go and sit in the very center where the ferns grew and it was cool and quiet. I now live in Texas and used to [...]

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I drove to North Carolina with my sister and drew an imaginary road back home from the views I saw along the way in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana….

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