Among The Giants

When hiking through the forested parts of Santiago Oaks I love the feeling of towering trees.  It feels like a forest of giants.

18x12 pastel
Offered through Chemers Gallery

Dry Creek "Pony" Trail

Back to pastels with this 12x18 scene from a hike a few weeks ago.  Right past the tree is a creek bed that is used to release water to areas down stream.  It is dry a good part of the time and easy to cross over to the mountain side of the park.  I like this trail a lot because it has dry brush and cactus.  

I started this painting on a sanded surface called Uart.  The surface can take washes of turpentine,alcohol and water.  This allows for under paintings in wet pastel, oil, ink or watercolor.  I really like the texture each of those mediums bring to my work.

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Branching Out

Last night was another evening painting under the setting sun at Chemers.  It was so much fun visiting with all the artists and talking with friends that I didn't finish my painting last night.  So today I put the finishing touches on it.  This is a 12x18 pastel on sanded paper from Kitty Wallis.  The fun thing about it was I started with a ink under painting in colors that supported the subject.  I typically start with a value painting in a dark nu pastel that I apply turp to get it into the paper.  It is usually a gray on color value under painting.  So painting with these colorful inks was very freeing and fun.  It created a value map in color the support the soft pastel.

The subject is from our local hiking park.  This is one of the pretty trails my husband and I enjoy hiking in Santiago Oaks Nature Park in Orange, California

Branching Out, 12x18 pastel is available through 

Chemers Gallery
17300 Seventeenth Street, Suite G, Tustin, CA 92780
714.731.5432     info@chemersgallery.com

The Road Between

 12x18, soft pastel

COUNTING FENCE POST II

12x18, pastel, framed and museum glass

Here is another pastel I did from a smaller oil I painted a few weeks ago.