Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

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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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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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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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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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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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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