Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

This was an experiment for me and a step away from my art comfort zone.  But I like it.

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I’m fairly close to done on this, I think.  I’m trying to decide if a sky painting needs land to ‘anchor’ it.

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One artist who regularly posts some excellent and helpful pieces is Rose Welty.  She had a great article on doing art every day, even if for just ten minutes.  (Read post here) One of the things I like about that idea is that it reminds us, every day, that whatever else we may be [...]

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I finished this one for the APS show – there sure are a lot of pretty sunsets from this hill.

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The Bear Creek Retreat allowed many of us from the Austin Pastel Society to paint at their beautiful place about a week ago, and I got a lot of great photos and a start on a pastel.  This is a pencil sketch done from a photo I took of three cool “step-down” trees on their [...]

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I started this one today on a 5×7 Ampersand pastel board, working on getting a second piece ready for the Austin Pastel Society’s show at the Scarbrough Building.

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Seven pastel artists joined together today for coffee, a visit and a good paintout at a lovely location.  It got hot quite fast, but it was good to visit with everyone and I wish we’d had more time for that.  Just for gabbing.  But it was good to see people’s art work while in progress, [...]

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Such nice people at the Great Outdoors Nursery here in Austin – they held an art event and I enjoyed the weekend in a very beautiful spot, talking with friends and painting pastels. These are two works in progress I started this weekend:
Great Outdoors Pagoda – Sally Fraser, Ann Seago and I collected plants, pots [...]

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