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Notes from Richard McKinley’s Pastel Workshop
You can see here the notes I took for the class, preserved both for my reference and yours.
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New Plein Air Pastel Landscape: Florence Griswold View
I enjoyed painting this with my pastel class last week at the Florence Griswold Museum. The weather was glorious...
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Portraits of Plein Air Artists at Work
I enjoyed the people in my plein air painting class. Richard McKinley (above) is an accomplished and well known...
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Thumbnails, Notans, and Field Sketches
In the class I've been taking with Richard McKinley, he discussed in detail a process he uses to formulate...
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New Plein Air Pastel Landscape: Tree at Hill-Stead Museum
Here is the painting I painted while together with this group on the lovely grounds of the Hill-Stead Museum...
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New Pastel Landscape: A Glade to the Side of Stonington Beach
This painting of favorite spot in Maine is 11" x 14" and is done in soft pastel...
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Visiting Alain Picard’s Studio
I’ve enjoyed visiting Alain Picard’s studio recently. It is fun to watch him work, grow, and become successful as...
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New Pastel Landscape: Evening Sun in Yellowstone
This new pastel of mine was done from a photo I took in Yellowstone when camping there with our...
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New Abstract Pastels for Good Friday
“Those who slew him to stay his influence perpetuated and extended it.” Mary Baker Eddy
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Pastel Still Life Demonstration
Today I went to a pastel demonstration done by Patricia Tribastone. In this post you can see photos from...
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I’m in This Connecticut Pastel Society Show
This is the first Connecticut Pastel Society show that I have been in. I look forward to doing more...
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New Pastel Landscape: Early Autumn Ice and Fog
I’ve wanted to paint this since taking a photo of this scene of ice and fog early one fall...