Summer Hay Bales miniature

'Summer Hay Bales' 2.5 x 3.5 pastel

I love painting these minis! It is a relaxing change of pace and a challenge at the same time. I try to see how I can say what I want to say with as few strokes as possible. This is a field in the North Georgia Mountains.

North Georgia Fields

'Country Fields' 8x10 pastel

Here is a scene from an area in North Georgia where I had the pleasure of doing some plein air painting a couple of years ago. It would be nice to go plein air painting now that fall is in the air. Actually Jayne, Holly and I will be taking an Autumn drive and painting trip soon. I have a new easy-l easel and artcomber cart so I am ready. It's funny though because it seems we never have the right equipment and then I just watched Doug Dawson's plein air dvd and he carried his pastels in a tupperware container and puts them on the ground on a placemat! So we really don't need to have the fancy gear to do beautiful work!

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Mountain Clover

'Mountain Clover' 11x14 pastel

Here is my demo painting from today's class. I had a request for a lesson on working with color and this demo helped me illustrate the ideas we talked about. We all tried working with a limited palette and keeping our pastels we are using seperate so we can get better color harmony. Everyone had success with their paintings and I hope had some fun in the process!

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North Georgia Barn

'Georgia Barn' 11x14 pastel

Today was the first class of the Fall session of my pastel class. It was good to get back into our routine and see everyone. This was the demo painting I did using a nupastel underpainting. We are going to be working on doing 4 value thumbnail sketches before every painting as our warm-up exercise. I shared the idea of using 3 gray TomBow markers to do the value sketches. I hope that today's class was helpful!