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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
A fellow artist – Sandy Askey Adams – posted this tonight from “The Business of Art”, and I loved this contemplation of what art is, to artists.
“Do make art; do make good art; and do make it all through your life, because, really, that is the only reward you can expect. Selling your art is [...]
Clouds, skies and light are very ethereal subjects to attempt to capture on paper or canvas. The expectant atmosphere of an impending storm or the welcome feel of a cool breeze just after sunset don’t easily translate into two dimensions. But I love to attempt that, and now have a large number of [...]
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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 [...]
This was an experiment for me and a step away from my art comfort zone. But I like it.
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The Bear Creek Retreat allowed many of us from the Austin Pastel Society to paint at their beautiful place about a week ago, and I got a lot of great photos and a start on a pastel. This is a pencil sketch done from a photo I took of three cool “step-down” trees on their [...]
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A little more work to be done on the piece and on the title………..
