“Swan” pastel 15 x 15″ UArt on gatorboard. So if Sennelier LaCarte is the pretty, delicate princess at the ball, then UArt is the party crasher that just showed up on a Harley in black leather. Yeah, it is indestructible and a little badass. It has...
This is the only time I believe in love at first sight…. I don’t exactly remember when I first started using Sennelier LaCarte, but it has to be over 20 years ago. And it changed the way I was working at the time. The ability to layer and layer….and layer again is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
