Regina Calton Burchett - Drawings & Pastels

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

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My Cherry Amour

June 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Finally found a little time to paint today.
Whew! Now I feel better.

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Fixin’ to be a good day - finished

May 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments

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

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Tags: Art · Friends · Fun · Learning Pastels · Marketing Art · Misc. · Nature · Writings · sky paintings

Great Outdoors - Art Under the Oaks - WIP x2

May 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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Draw, Plant, Save, Donate, Appreciate a Tree

April 22nd, 2009 · 2 Comments

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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WIP - path, tree, fog

April 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

I started this tonight about 10:30 after a very frustrating day / week… it’s from a photo my friend Diana shared with me. She is doing a painting from it also. Because of a frame I already had, I decided to stretch the image somewhat, and work from that. This is [...]

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Bug - Beetle - Scarab - Locust with acorn

March 7th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I have not had time to work on art, but love this bug.  So here it is.
What a great design.

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Austin bat colony

August 12th, 2008 · 3 Comments

    
We visited the Congress Street Bridge (actually Ladybird Lake) at sunset last week and got some photos of the bats as they took off for the evening. I doubt that I would ever try to paint this, but it was a great sunset and so many bats it was unbelievable!  If you’d like more [...]

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Painting Geraniums

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Jo and I had a great time today - the weather was beautiful, opened all the windows in the studio, there was no pressure, just good Starbucks coffee - we painted some geraniums I bought this morning, and gabbed and listened to music. A fine day.
   
Final Piece

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A Maze

February 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I didn’t feel great yesterday, so I sat in my comfy chair and did this - just a fun exercise with no point to it…

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Making your album cover…

January 13th, 2008 · 5 Comments

My friend Jo had a blog on her page about making your “album cover” in this random way, from her daughter Joanna’s page and it was a lot of fun.
But first, I had to find out what a “meme” was…
Meme - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: A meme (pronounced /miːm/), as defined [...]

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