Base of the Mountain

Base of the Mountain is a pastel demo from this morning's pastel class.  I was given a photo one of my students was using and it had a lot going on so simplification was in order.

6" x 6" Higbee Juried Show

Happy to announce the Oysters and Yellow Cottage have been accepted to the Randy Higbee 6" x 6" National Juried Show

Street Scene Pastel

My demo from my pastel class.  The original photo below  had more elements and I simplified it for this image.  It was a lesson in design as well as color and value.

yellow roses

A 6 x6 demo from my oil painting class

IAPS

Very honored to have Belly Dancer accepted to the IAPS (International Association of Pastel Societies) 23rd annual web exhitibion

Oysters

 A 6 x 6 inch painting of oyster shells

Along the River...no green

This pastel was a demo in my class to show how to work from a photo or landscape but change the colors so that no major color from the photo is really in the final painting.  It is an exercise in understanding value and intensity of colors in relation to the overall painting.