Ampersand

Lets get technical and talk about pastel surfaces. So I probably haven’t used every surface for the medium of pastel out there, but I can give you a pretty comprehensive analysis of the ones I use regularly.  So let’s start with one of my favorite...

Graduation

This weekend my daughter graduates from college.   Yes, she is one of the girls above… I feel like it was me not that long ago.  The fact that I can even remember 33 years ago when I was the college graduate amazes me.  Where did the time go?   When I was in...

First Fridays

This weekend is First Fridays of Greenville.   It is a cool event and Gallery Crawl that happens every First Friday of the month in my new hometown. Exhibitions open. Artists open their studios and the community gets a good dose of art and creativity.  It is one of...

Grace

  Last weekend I was in Atlanta… I got to serve as juror for the Exhibition of the Southeastern Pastel Society. So last week I traveled south and attended the Opening of the show.  It was really cool to see a large gallery full of images that I had...

The Studio

The new studio space is coming along…. Books and paints and pastels. Floodlights and brushes and rags.  All finding a home.  I am not a super neat-nick, but I do love knowing where everything is when I am working.  Every time I climb these steps up to the second...