Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

I like working on these 5×7 landscapes, but need to improve on…  so many things.  Not over-working a piece, brush type strokes rather than drawing, maintaining my way of painting without copying the current movement toward complete minimalism, while still studying to be a better artist….  practice, practice.

LittleLandscape2     5×7    Pastel

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I worked a bit more on my first little landscape, and think I like it better.  After watching just part of the DVD on composition, I should have known better than to put a row of clouds all the way across the painting, even though that was how they occurred in the sky, as it [...]

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I woke up at 5am, dreaming about pastels. I hadn’t been able to paint in so long (with the exception of my paintout with Jo almost two weeks ago), so went out to my studio a little before 6am and cleaned some, watched a DVD on composition for a while, went through a bunch [...]

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My friend Jo Castillo and I were finally able to go paint together and were blessed with a beautiful day! The temperature was perfect and the sun made some great reflections at McKinney Falls. We had painted there a year or so back, when it was too hot to even sit in the shade, [...]

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The last couple of months have been spent enjoying the time I could spare creating art while wondering, yet again, why we do art – especially during slow economic times when not many people seem to be interested in buying what we spend so much time planning, drawing, painting, judging..
And the very complex, intricate, convoluted [...]

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Again, I’m having a very difficult time getting a correct color photo of this blue / mauve / grey painting.  This is a little blurry, but I actually think my cell phone took a more accurate picture than our more expensive camera. This was painted from a photo I took while in a boat [...]

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The new Pearathon website is now open!

For all drawings and paintings of pears
and all artist authors of such.
Send a link to www.pearathon.com of your pear art so we can created the largest (and yes, possibly the only) website devoted to art of pears!
You are welcome to submit up to three links to images of [...]

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Drawing from life and enjoying the fragrance of these wonderful flowers, I started out just sketching this as a regular pencil drawing, then decided I liked the background to define the flowers more than shading and shadows on the flowers themselves. Then I came back in with a kneaded eraser to subdue and further [...]

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Since it would be good to make back some of my cost for art supplies, and for those who like my art, I’d definitely like to make it affordable….  I decided last Thursday to add my work to Etsy, a website for handmade items (including prints of artwork) and vintage things.  My new shop [...]

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When I finish a painting that has been a challenge for me (whether it turned out well or not), I like to draw or paint something I’m more comfortable with. Also, there are days when nothing goes right, like today. I tried to start another painting, but it felt forced…  I even had [...]

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