For artists of all levels, my Pastel Painting Workshop covers techniques using soft pastels, composition and color and also specifics such as how to build foam cases to store unframed pastel paintings, how to frame a pastel yourself, and how to … Continue reading
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Plein Air Pastelist’s Survival Kit: Painting on Location in Soft Pastels and Living to Paint Another Day
Plein Air painting is tinted with a mystique that all too often intimidates artists into never venturing outside to paint. It’s a big, scary world out there. It’s also a lovely, inspiring world, one just waiting to fill your … Continue reading
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Mixing It Up by Starting A Painting In Oils Instead of Pastels
I’m primarily a pastel painter, and I blog about that here. But not always. I’m also an oil painter. This summer, for a few weeks, I returned to my oil painting roots. Why (even temporarily) abandon my beloved pastel sticks? Because I’m an … Continue reading
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Updates on My September Pastel Painting Workshop
The September 25-28 2015 workshop at the Museum of the Big Bend in Alpine, Texas is full, bursting with artists! If you didn’t get in (it filled almost overnight, so don’t kick yourself too hard for procrastinating about signing up) … Continue reading
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I’m Teaching an All-Level Pastel Painting Workshop in Alpine, Texas September 25 – Sept 28 2015
I teach two pastel painting workshops annually at the Museum of the Big Bend in scenic Alpine, Texas. That seems to be all I can manage and still have time to paint and travel and pretend to cook. My spring … Continue reading
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Continuing in Pastels Workshop May 2-4 2015
I’m teaching another workshop for artists who’ve studied with me before (or those with a working knowledge of soft pastels), Continuing in Pastels. This intensive 3 day painting course returns to the Museum of the Big Bend this spring, Sat/Sun/Mon May 2-4, 2015. … Continue reading
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Pastel Painting Workshop October 3-5 2014 at the Museum of the Big Bend, Alpine, Texas
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Are You A Painter or Not?
It’s not that uncommon to encounter someone who tells me, “Oh, I’m an artist, too.” That makes me seek instant bonding. (Oh gee whiz, I think, here’s someone as weird as I am!) I eagerly respond with, “What do you paint?” Nine … Continue reading
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Outlaw Pastelist: On Coloring Outside the Lines 