Sometimes it’s difficult to decide which medium would be the best to work with when you have a certain final creation in mind. I have started with pastel pencils and after twenty minutes or so, switched to watercolor, then decided that wouldn’t work and ended up drawing with colored pencil, because I wanted a lot [...]
Entries from February 2009
Colored Pencil drawings – it’s the detail
February 26th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Art · Pencil Sketch
Sunflowers, Sunny Friends
February 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments
We had a great day painting pastels of a beautiful bouquet brought by new friend Sue from Michigan and my friend Jo from Bastrop. We traded pastel tips and encouraging words while sipping Starbucks. Life is good.
Sunflowers Sue, painting
Jo, painting [...]
Learning to paint with pastels
February 21st, 2009 · 4 Comments
Pastels. Wonderful. Soft. Vibrant. Subtle. Amazing to touch. Exciting to paint with. Forgiving of my experiments and mistakes.
I first discovered pastels (and sanded paper!) about ten years ago and have been thrilled to work with them since that time. Prior to that, I worked with acrylics, oils, watercolors, pen and ink, pencils, gouache, scratchboard, airbrushing, and just [...]
Tags: Art · Learning Pastels
Bach’s Birds
February 15th, 2009 · 7 Comments
This is a little pastel I worked on this afternoon for a new CAS show entitled “The Sound of Art” – not sure how much more detail I’ll put it. But do you know what piece of music this is?
ps – it is the first 2.5 bars of a piece that has two titles, both [...]
Tags: Art
Live Oaks in the Fog – finished
February 13th, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tulip One – colored pencil drawing
February 10th, 2009 · 5 Comments
I bought this plant – it had six buds now all in full bloom – at the grocery for about $3.50, and did a colored pencil drawing today
Tags: Art · Pencil Sketch
Pencil Sketch of Apple and of Banana
February 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
I try to keep improving my drawing skills, as I believe that is a basic foundation for any art you do beyond drawing. Here are an apple and banana I did last week, regular ol’ pencil ~ (and if you put the word “apple” in the search box to the right, all apple-related posts will [...]
Tags: Art · Pencil Sketch
Live Oaks in the Fog – close to finished
February 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
This looks very different from what I started with. I was having fun with the colors at first, and then decided to bring it closer to the original scene, as I loved those colors too. I think it is close to done – and would appreciate any feedback or suggestions! Really!
The key is – as [...]
Live Oaks in the Fog – a beginning
February 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Slogging along. Flogging? Treading through ankle deep sludge. For several months now. Long work days, multiple deadlines, commitments, tax forms, pressure…
I finally had a free day last Friday with nothing hanging over my head — went out to the studio, hot Starbucks in hand and several great photos to work from. And everything I tried looked like [...]
Tags: Art
