Transience of Innocence - Honorable Mention in Pastel 100

"Transience of Innocence" (pastel, 26x19 inches) sold

I've been bursting with excitement, and had to wait to brag that my painting Transience of Innocence has won an Honorable Mention in the Portrait & Figure Category of the Pastel Journal's 20th annual Pastel 100 competition. A very grateful thank you goes to Diane Rappisi who juried the category!

An image of the painting will be published in the April 2019 issue of Pastel Journal. This is very exciting, as there were more than 2,000 entries!

You can read a bit of the exhibition history of Transience of Innocence on this earlier blog post, and see all the progress shots here, including the photo composition!

Thanks for reading! :)

Sketching on my IPad

My new toy that I got myself for Christmas was an IPad. I finally had time to check out the fun apps available and I'm thrilled with "Penultimate." I tried it out as a sketch pad at my daughter's Girl Scout meeting, and I had so much fun doing 10-second sketches of the girls (they didn't know I was drawing, so of course, were not holding still!) I decided to post them.
That touch-screen is so responsive! Great fun 'finger-drawing!'

Some of these were about 5 seconds!
This girl was dancing, but I thought this pose looked like her arm was resting on a shelf..
This was my son and another girl's brother, playing chess. I actually did this one first. This one took about 10 minutes.