Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

Art for the sake of creating – pastel paintings, drawings, photos and writing

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Entries from January 2009

A Radiance of Cardinals

January 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

As I walked past the back door yesterday, I saw a large cardinal on top of the chiminea and behind him on the ground were five male cardinals.  I wasn’t able to grab the camera in time, but was still lucky enough to get this photo of four males and two females… click [...]

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La Villita Spring Arts Festival

January 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I found out today that I have been invited to be in the La Villita Spring Arts Festival at La Villita historic arts village in San Antonio on April 4 and 5, 2009.    There is a lot happening the week before and the week after this, art-wise (I will be sharing a booth [...]

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Guardian No. 3

January 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments

I finished this one today and submitted it and the “Arbor Walk” pastel and the “Break in the Storm Clouds” pastel to the APS annual competition.  There are so many amazing entries APS 2009 – it’s great just to view this slideshow and think how many fantastic pastel artists there are in the [...]

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Two trees (in progress)

January 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments

This pastel – in progress – is from a photo I took in October 2006 while at a workshop with Jo Castillo. I’m getting closer to done, but not sure where it will end up.  I worked on it quite a bit at the Travis Heights Art Walk in December, and yesterday at the [...]

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Arbor – close to finished

January 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments

I’ve worked on this the last couple of days while downtown at the Real Gallery show on Congress. Think I’m close to done.

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