Best Friends

Best Friends

Pastel 8 x 10
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Reminder: Come and enjoy art and refreshments at the Yarmouth Gallery Holiday Show tomorrow, Saturday 21 November. The reception starts at 4:00pm until 7:00pm. It will be fun!

At the Gallery

At the Gallery

Pastel 8 x 10
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Pink Aster

Pink Aster

Pastel 8 x 8

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They line up the roads, the sea shore, come in a variety of blues, violets and pinks and are one of my favorite fall flowers to paint.

Pumpkins for Sale

Pumpkins for Sale

Pastel 8 x 10

Available at Fruitlands Museum Store

Like many artists, I thrive to create looser, more abstract paintings. But sometimes, it feels sooo.... good to paint within your comfort zone. This week end was just one of those times. Pumpkins on their way to Fruitlands.

Pink Reflection

Pink Reflection

Pastel 8 x 12
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At the end of a late summer day in Harpswell, Maine.

Figures of the Day

City Street Fashion

Pastel 8 x 10

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It is a very busy summer and there has been little time for posting. I have been creating a series of figures as a break from my most conventional painting. 

My painting and teaching activities at the Fruitlands Museum are on-going until the end of October. Please check their web site for more information. The Layers exhibit by 80 Dusty Fingers at the Museum Gallery ends on September 8th. Don't miss this beautiful show if you have not yet seen it! 

Sentier des Ocres

Sentier des Ocres

Pastel 11 x 14

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Inspired from a walk through the old ochre quarries of Rousillon, classified as one of the most beautiful villages of France. The ochre mines closed in the 1930's and the Sentier des Ocres is now a protected site. Ochre pigments ranging from yellow and orange to red (from other regions) can be purchased in the tourist shops in town. I mixed a little of it in my watercolor under painting.

Daily Figures

 Red Accessories - Pastel 8 x 5 

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Since taking a workshop with Tony Allain, I have integrated what I learned into my daily routine and have been painting at least one figure a day, fast and with very few strokes. Today, it is "Red Accessories"... just because I love red shoes.

Red Carpet

Red Carpet

Pastel 8 x 5.5 - Sold

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The French countryside looks like a red carpet during poppy season in May and June. This field with the Alpilles in the distance was on the way to Roussillon.

Workshop with Tony Allain

On their Way

Pastel 8 x 10
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I recently attended a workshop organized by the Pastel Society of Connecticut, with master pastelist Tony Allain. What a treat! Tony's generosity in sharing painting tips and techniques left us with many "take aways" after 3 days of painting outside of our comfort zone:

- Painting from sketches, not photographs
- Applying the least amount of pastel strokes (150 max.) to keep paintings fresh
- Speed paintings (10 minutes) to loosen up
- Creating a painting with 3 colors (3 values of each)
- Painting figures with a wide marker (like a Sharpie) and applying deliberate pastel marks

I composed "On their Way" entirely with pastels since I did not have wide markers at the workshop. It is my first attempt at a group of figures. So much fun!