Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

•    Try to draw one object or scene a day
•    Join a local art guild to learn and to make friends with other artists
•    Copy an old master for the experience
•    Join www.wetcanvas.com and participate in the “scavenger hunt” drawing assignments
•    Ask other artists for constructive critiques, not just compliments
•    Play your favorite music while [...]

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Sitting here looking out the window at the last of the beautiful fall trees, it seems like we have more color this year than we generally do in central Texas.  The yellows and oranges all around the neighborhood have been such a nice change, but now the trees are losing their leaves more rapidly.

It seems [...]

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We have a lot of beautiful cardinals here in Texas, but I took a photo of this particular little guy during a snow storm in North Carolina. He was very squat and fat and puffed up, trying to withstand the cold, I guess.

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When I think about why we should continue to put forth the effort to recycle cans and glass and paper, to cut our vehicle emissions, to carry our own reusable grocery bags, to endeavor to turn back the clock on the damage we have done our planet. . . . .  I [...]

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The directions say to post on Saturday, but I finished this tonight and if I don’t do it now, I probably won’t remember to post it.   Virtual Sketch Link November

I love trees – drawing, painting, watching trees. This was done with a mechanical pencil on acid-free card stock. It took about two hours.  [...]

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I’ve seen a lot of searches to this site about ” how to sketch a flower “, and I’d like to help you find one of the best step-by-step illustrations I’ve seen. It’s by a friend of mine, Leslie Hawes, on her blog www.lesliehawes.com and is from one of the virtual sketch exercises. [...]

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If you are an artist viewing this website, I would love to hear your thoughts on what you enjoy most about creating art.
The anticipation, the preparation, the actual creation or the final contemplation?  (sorry…  I got kind of caught up in how those words wove together). Or do you enjoy some other aspect [...]

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