Friends of Pastel

I have a found a few things over the years that make painting in pastel a little easier. I thought I would take the next few weeks and show you some of my favorite helpful “friends of pastel” tools that may help you as well.   I started painting plein air...

Sketchbooks

I don’t know if you are like me, but I have a ton of sketchbooks. And the drawings in them are not pretty. They are scribbles and full of arrows and lines and half-baked thoughts. Artists with pretty drawings in their sketchbooks amaze me.  They must be the same kind...

“Half-Cocked”

Recently I delivered a painting back to its forever home.  My best friend and I have been friends for 30 years. We know everything there is to know about each other and at one point, over 12 years ago, I decided to paint her.  Now my friend is not normal- and I mean...

Studio #10

 “Lifes like a road that you travel on, when there’s one day here and the next day gone…”  – Rascal Flatts.  I moved. Well, just down the hall from Studio #8 to Studio #10, but still… Moving a studio is work! It is the most serious...

“Underwater”

There are events in life that greatly affect us. They get talked about, analyzed, and then we try to put them on a shelf. But sometimes there are nightmares and the images persist. Then I know it is time to paint my  demons. For me, there have been rare occasions...