Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

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

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Choosing your painting subject – because it speaks to you or to a buyer?

February 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Katherine Tyrrell of Making a Mark blog had a great post of the most wanted paintings on the web, a study done about 15 years ago. The study had different results for different countries, but apparently for the USA, if you are painting medium-large historic-appearing landscapes of wild animals near a lake, you are [...]

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Morning Light at Inks Lake

January 31st, 2010 · 4 Comments

I’m so glad to have time to paint again. I’ve wanted to do this one for a long time, from an October morning camping at Inks Lakes in central Texas.

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Austin Pastel Society Artist Paint-around

January 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments

The Austin Pastel Society monthly meeting was yesterday, and we had a member-artists Paint-Around with Johanne Morin, Debra Richardson , Mike Etie, and John Bittick and myself.  I’ve dreaded this since Rae Andrews did some cheerful arm-twisting to get us to commit.  We each started our own painting from our photo we brought with us, [...]

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2010 Austin Pastel Society Annual Member Juried Exhibition

January 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments

The Austin Pastel Society yearly competition has 98 entries, and you can see them all here. There are so many good artists in this group, and these entries will be reviewed by juror Claudia Seymour. Those chosen for the show will be on exhibit from March 7 through May 2, 2010 at the [...]

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Pearathon.com – new posts!

January 6th, 2010 · No Comments

Many new artists have offered their wonderful pears for inclusion on the www.pearathon.com website – please check it out to see all the variety of artists dedicated to capturing the essence of pearism ~

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