Watercolor Under Painting
I’ve been working lately on exploring various watercolor under paintings. In the past, I primarily used pastel as my underpainting, using an alcohol wash to fix it before beginning to paint. My late...
Plein Air Week
Plein Air Painting Week This past weekend started with teaching a 2 day “Plein Air 101” workshop, in Norcross, GA, at The Kudzu Art Zone. My class was geared to artists who always wanted to pain...
Out in the Sticks
Out in the Sticks 9 x 12 pastel Driving through the town of Elijay, GA, I took a turn down a side street and discovered this barn down a dead end. It was so backlit and unsure if it would make a good ...
The Little Yellow House
Workshop Demo I taught a one day pastel workshop out of my home studio. Starting the day with a complete overview of materials, design and composition, value lessons, and underpainting and finishing w...
Finding Your Voice – Pastel Journal Magazine article
It all started, around 5 years ago, when I decided to stop taking my pastel class. I realized that I came to the point when I needed to take everything I learned from my teachers and books, art magazi...
Oil Classes
For the last couple of months, I have put my pastels aside, to concentrate on oil painting. Not that I have lost interest in my beloved pastels, mind you, but I have a desire to get to the next level ...
Plein Air – Oil and Pastel
Painting plein air is one of my favorite things to do. Having to tackle painting nature, with all it’s challenges of light shifting, wind blowing, sun’s heat beating down, the threat of rain, give...
Afternoon Reflections
This is a pastel commission I just finished of my clients’ beautiful backyard property. They have 15 acres which includes 2 ponds and wide open fields on 15 acres. ...