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Pastel Landscape
I decided I wanted to play with my pastels today and was flipping through my photos looking for a floral picture to paint. Instead I came across a picture of a small watercolor abstract landscape I painted a few years… Continue reading
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New art at LSG
It’s a new month starting this week so that means I have fresh art up at Lawrence Street Gallery. I embraced the spring energy this month and have a lot of bright and flowery pieces. The Exposures annual photography show… Continue reading
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Pastel Series Continues
My twentieth anniversary is coming up next month so for today’s pastel painting I decided the next piece in my house plant series would be a money tree. We didn’t have this type of plant growing up, but we didn’t… Continue reading
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Zoom AM, Clay PM
This morning I felt like experimenting, using soft pastels with water. I started on my 300# cold press cotton rag. I spent the first hour working on the dry paper. At a critique last week, we were discussing reflections on… Continue reading
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Jaded
Growing up we had a beautiful jade plant that my dad took care of. When he died it fell to the rest of us to take care of the poor plant. It had a slow but steady decline until eventually… Continue reading
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Orchids on my mind
Today I was thinking about my pottery orchid and wondering if it made it through the kiln firing intact. I am quite excited to see how it turned out. Perhaps I’ll have time to stop by the clay studio tomorrow… Continue reading
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Portrait in Pastel
The other day when I painted a pastel portrait from one of my photos, it had my daughter and youngest son. I certainly didn’t want my middle son to feel left out so tonight I picked a photograph I took… Continue reading
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Pastel Practice
This evening my mom, son and I attended a Poetry Slam at Anton, and while I listened to the poems, my eyes were drawn to the landscape artworks on the gallery walls. It inspired me to try my hand painting… Continue reading
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Studio time
Today I spent a few hours at the studio making myself available to help our artists submit work for our upcoming show. Since no one showed up needing help, I worked on a pastel painting, this time from a photo… Continue reading
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Zoom Friday
This bird, which follows the inspirational theme of the month for the Palette Club, was actually my second artwork during our two hour zoom studio time. Since I had the time for a second piece I wanted to try out… Continue reading
366 Days of Art 