Welcome winter and here comes 2023, life is good!

Another year of exploring and extending my artist journey. I continued to learn the techniques to using pastels and trying various materials, such as different brands, and papers. I tried to do a 31 day daily  challenge in October and fell short but it was a good start 😉

 

Lower Owens River Thicket

Pastel, 9x12 

Unfortunately a few weeks after I painted here, this area burned. 

 I painted this on black canvas after hearing that my favorite teacher Wayne Thiébaud

 had passed at the advanced age of 101years. His art, wit, and instruction were so very influential. 

We had very little snow in 2022 but I was able to paint a few snow tree studies in gauche from my studio. 

         

I continued throughout the spring and summer to explore pastels plein air and in my studio. I took the pastels with me on several vacations, sold a one off the easel in Hawaii, and a few when I came home. 

      Hilton Creek, Nevahbe mountain 

      Pastel 12x18 

  

      Gull Lake, Carson Peak

      Plein air pastel, 9x12 

 

I took my first pastel workshop  in Santa Barbara during a heatwave in April. The instructor was Liz Sullivan Hayward and I learned loads and met new pastel buddies. 

Our annual trek to Nebraska and Iowa in  September provided new scenes and inspiration. 

Merritt Resovoir, Sandhills of Nebraska 

8x12 pastel 

Sandhills cattails

    

Pumpkins in Iowa                                                          Sunflowers in Nebraska , SOLD 

Plein air watercolor and pastel 

9x12 

Convict Lake Autumn Colors 

Plein art pastel 

Convict Lake. 

6x9 SOLD 

Kamuela Coastline 

Plein air  9x12 

HAWAII, my happy place 

The Mud Road 

Waimea Big Island Hawaii

SOLD 

 

My best friend Karen, a 50 year plus friendship, and I celebrated our birthdays with a 2 week trip in France. We did a walking tour in the Dordogne valley and saw castles and prehistoric cave art. We also spent a long weekend in Toulouse. We were so busy seeing and being on out trip, I had no time to paint on the trip. But this summer I did a series of watercolor postcards based on my photos. 

Here are a few of the 31 cards I painted 

 

 

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