Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

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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Being a long-time computer user – I did key punch in the 70’s and bought my first computer in 1983  (Yes, a Commodore 64) – I am still a very unsophisticated rube incapable of being blasé about the Internet.
I think it is a fantastic and amazing library where I can instantly – and usually for [...]

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Not having much time right now to put into painting, I can steal a few minutes here and there to check out my favorite blogs…  and those artist’s favorite blogs.
Here is one I found today –
Andrea Joseph’s sketchblog
Wonderful, wonderful sketches.
And I found Andrea through
Rose Welty
who also loves to paint, draw and figured out [...]

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One of my friends from the Austin Pastel Society has a new blog – mikeetieart.blogspot.com – and a very nice art website
www.mikeetie.com
It will be well worth your time to visit and see his great landscapes.

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Back from my nephew’s wedding in North Carolina, and loaded up with work for the next month or two. I don’t know if I’ll find time for painting until September. But I saw a bunting yesterday and couldn’t find a camera in time. I thought they only came in the spring. I did get a [...]

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This was an experiment for me and a step away from my art comfort zone.  But I like 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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Wherever you live, you probably enjoy
the shade and scent and beauty of a tree.

When I leave home and drive in any direction, there are new neighborhoods emerging – in an incredibly short time span – from the freshly razed ground.  Mature trees are now heaped into scrap piles around the perimeter.
With the construction of most [...]

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I had a lot of fun last weekend at the Zilker Park Botanical Festival, sharing a “Botanical Art” booth with two other artists.  We discussed many things, art among them, and met a lot of nice people.  For a while, I tried to draw a tree, but the sun coming through the crape myrtle behind [...]

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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                 [...]

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