#8 of 21-in-31 "Twilight Road II"

 "Twilight Road II" (pastel on UArt 320 dark, 6x8 inches) bid or buy here 

This is one of the paintings I did for the Summer Road Trip Paint-Along on Saturday! I really liked the photo and painted it almost just like it was. Nice when that happens.

 

The paint-Along video is in editing progress and hopefully will be posted by Monday some time. But of course with my 21 goal this month I wanted to post these! Stay tuned for the other Road Trip painting tomorrow.

 

It was a great group at the Paint-Along. I'm eager to show off their paintings to you! meanwhile, enjoy this little GIF, here!

Beach Sunrise #6

 

"Beach Sunrise #6" (pastel, 6x8 inches) bid or buy here

This was the other version of the beach sunrise I painted at Saturday's Paint-Along. This one's on UArt 800, black. I had never used the 800 before. It's VERY soft and almost like velour, but with the holding power of UArt. Nice! But I think I do prefer a bit more texture. This one was demanding lots of intricate details with pastel pencils. I almost want to work even smaller on this fine grit paper!

See progress pics here!

Sunset #60

 

"Sunset #60" (pastel, 6x8 inches) $300 framed

Here's the other little sunset from my September Sunsets paint-along!

Enjoy a quick progress GIF here!

 

Day 5 - Parked on a Rainy Afternoon

"Parked on a Rainy Afternoon" (pastel, 6x8 inches) click here to bid or buy

Day 5 of April 2020

It rained today, and was cold and icky. So I decided not to venture outside to traverse the 50 yards to the studio, and my boss said that was ok... So no new cute fuzzy for today; instead, here's another rainy day from the American Impressionist Society paintout in Fredericksburg last month.

It rained most of those days too, and I spent an hour one afternoon driving around looking for an interesting vantage point for my "mobile studio". Main Street was out of the question, no decent place to park. But I found this interesting intersection on a back street where the road narrowed down to cross a bridge.

 "Success is nine parts preparation..."

 I must have been in the "zone" after this because I have no progress shots of the pastel part! Oops!

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Park Trail #44

"Park Trail #44" (pastel, 6x8 inches) click here to bid or buy

Finally getting around to posting my last few straggling demos from my summer workshop trip. This was my landscape demo for the VECCA in Woodstock VA. I didn't catch progress shots, but here's a pic of us all in the workshop, the students showing off their work!