SAVED BY PASTELS

Sometimes, despite my best efforts, I can't accomplish what I set out to do. That's what happened in this last wc painting, everything below the tree line looked like mud, and my attempts at improving it only made things worse. I was faced with 2 options, throw it out and start over, or get out the soft pastels. I chose the latter, and once again they rescued an otherwise failed effort.

In this sketch, everything below the trees is pastel over a previously painted foreground.


Idaho landscape II...6x8"....wc & Pastel

I'M ON A ROLL

When it rains it pours. And when I do one pastel painting I have to do more. In each case, I begin with a color selection, not knowing what will eventually be done. Here are the second and third paintings of this current series.


Tuscan Lavender pastel on illustration board 14x26 $500


Sun rise pastel on illustration board 12x18 $325

TAKING A BREAK...FROM ACRYLICS

Time to get down and dirty with the soft pastels. And I really do. I work with a lot of pastel dust to create backgrounds and foregrounds, and by the time I finish there is multicolored dust all over the place, especially me.

Here is yesterday's effort.


orange sky pastel on coldpress illustration board 12x16 $275