Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

Again, I’m having a very difficult time getting a correct color photo of this blue / mauve / grey painting.  This is a little blurry, but I actually think my cell phone took a more accurate picture than our more expensive camera. This was painted from a photo I took while in a boat [...]

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The new Pearathon website is now open!

For all drawings and paintings of pears
and all artist authors of such.
Send a link to www.pearathon.com of your pear art so we can created the largest (and yes, possibly the only) website devoted to art of pears!
You are welcome to submit up to three links to images of [...]

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Drawing from life and enjoying the fragrance of these wonderful flowers, I started out just sketching this as a regular pencil drawing, then decided I liked the background to define the flowers more than shading and shadows on the flowers themselves. Then I came back in with a kneaded eraser to subdue and further [...]

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When I finish a painting that has been a challenge for me (whether it turned out well or not), I like to draw or paint something I’m more comfortable with. Also, there are days when nothing goes right, like today. I tried to start another painting, but it felt forced…  I even had [...]

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Pastel, 10 x 13
Day Three – revised
Day two of my studio vacation. I need to let this set a day or two to see what I want to change about it … maybe the lights along the street on the right side?

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I wonder if I am doing a disservice to a piece I started six months ago, when I finish it just to ‘get it done’. I started this last spring while participating in an art show at a local nursery. We kind of did the mad shopper bit, and ran around the place gathering [...]

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I posted this day before yesterday, and then realized (from a question by my sister) that the shadow stem was wrong, so had to correct that. This is the final of my “Pearathon” group. And I hope I finally got the plate done correctly! But I’m not tired of pears yet…

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I started both of these yesterday and wasn’t pleased with either of them, so got up early today and worked on them more. My last acrylic was sometime in the 70’s, so it was definitely an exercise in trying something almost new. On the pastel one (No. 5), I tried using colors I [...]

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Pastel, 5×7

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My grocery store actually ran out of pears.  So my sister brought me three to draw / paint.  I did a pencil sketch last night of the small one, and got up early today to do a colored pencil drawing.

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