Process of Seeing Color Through Still Life

Setup

Color wash on Uart paper

First over with pastel

Pastel continued

Refinement and review

Sacked

 "Sacked" is another pastel.  Apples are such a wonderful subject to bring in the new year.  They have such beautiful color and form.  

Oh The Places We Can Go

Love the lines that train tracks make as they ride off out of view. Where they can take me and what I might see. Love the idea of train travel.
This is an oil, 9x12 canvas with a high horizon line. Fun for a change. The reference drew me in because of the strong lines. That also became the challenge.

Trail To Robber's Roost

I have been working through a series of Santiago Oak using pastel.  This is a 9x12 that I did as a demonstration painting for the Orange County Fine Art Association this month.  It was an awesome experience.  I look forward to next month when I will be demonstrating for the United Society of Pastel Artists.  More info to come on that.
Offered through Chemers Gallery

When In Back Bay...

9x12, pastel

When I think of the back bay, I think of this bluff.  It jets out into the bay and can be seen from the south shore very well.

Good Afternoon

9x12, pastel

Enjoying the afternoon in Laguna is often spent by walking the park above the beach.  It is lush and a wonderful place to sit and enjoy the Laguna coastline.

HOME GROWN

9x12, oil, sold

We have 2 Valencia orange trees in our yard.  Most of the time these trees are bounitful.  For years at Christmas we would put our christmas tree in the bay window and take photos of our boys standing in front of it.  Always in the background just outside the window hung branches burdened down with fruit.  Loved sending those photos oof to family and friends in the midwest and east coast to share.

"DENISE IN GREEN"

9x12, pastel, $200.00

Oh it feels good to get back to pastels.  This actually has an under painting in oil, which was fun to incorporate since I love oils.  This was done today at a model session and Denise was our beautiful model. I just returned from Portland where i attended a color intensive workshop with Kitty Wallis.  It was good stuff.  All the things I have been avoiding all rolled up into 4 days.  Well not everything.  Lots of color value and studies with a hugh push into the world of expressive color.  It was great and exhausting.  The last day we took it a step farther in that we learned how to mix and make our own pastels.  I loved it.  Wonderful, wonderful color...I am totally in love and want to make more.  There is nothing like mixing a color and then creating values of it in chunks of pastels that I can hold and covet in my hands.  Anyway it was a great workshop.  Oh and I love Portland Oregon!!!  I was ga ga over the atmospheric color and the colors in the changing of the seasons.  Sure makes So Cal look like a desert.

I will post some of the things I did there over the next few days.   It is still sinking in as it applies to pastels and how it will effect my work in oil.  So fun to get new info.  I think I was starving.