Ah, here it comes… one of my biggest pet peeves. I see it all of the time…those pretty, perfectly sorted travel boxes and drawers full of pastels. And the lamenting…”Oh, I spent three days sorting my pastel sticks! Look at how pretty and organized I am now!” (while...
So if you noticed last week, I don’t sharpen my pastel pencils. I have not found a good reason to have a sharp point on the pencils I use. I find it is really (1) a waste of my time, and (2) it is not needed. Pastel in the barrels of a wooden pencil is pretty...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
