Regina Calton Burchett – Pastels & Drawing

I was taking this photo with my cell phone camera because I liked the shadow pattern on the grass below, but with the sun behind the tree, it became like a prism. Click the photo to see full size. Wikipedia Prisms illustration here

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These are photos from this month ~ mostly of small, good things. It’s been a very up and down month, as Decembers usually seem to be – but overall, good. I haven’t had much time to do art, but sometimes it seems like we are squirrels, storing up images and ideas for when the time [...]

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Since I have always loved the most basic element of art – pencil drawing – I wanted to post one that I did a few years ago, and links to some of my favorite pencil artists who definitely excel at pencil “painting”.  For me, drawing has always been a part of my life.  It is [...]

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This month’s Virtual Sketch subject is a great photo of a farmhouse on a cold winter day.  It made me feel cold just to draw it, and after ten years of living in Michigan, reminds me of why I live in Texas.  Beautiful but hard to bear for six months. See all artist’s work from [...]

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The photo in the previous post – that Larry had taken in Ohio last year – stuck in my mind through the night, so I printed it this morning and took it with me to the Travis Heights Art Trail to work on. It was such an enjoyable weekend – lots of interesting people and [...]

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Dear Ms. Bokeh lady – or anyone who knows the scientific answer to this: why does most of the bokeh (I love a new word) appear as circles? Does it relate to the sun? Back in 1991, during the solar eclipse, the light spaces in the shadows cast on the ground changed from small circles [...]

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This is my ongoing, shallow, simplistic, Pollyanna view of art. There’s a place for all of us in the grand art scheme, correct?  Good for a cold and dreary day. Tomorrow’s Sunrise

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Here are parts of a painting I started and didn’t like the “whole” of.   I wanted to do a pastel with teal and copper as the main colors but couldn’t make it what I wanted it to be.  I keep telling myself that art is not always about playing it safe. I’m just reluctant to [...]

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•    Try to draw one object or scene a day •    Join a local art guild to learn and to make friends with other artists •    Copy an old master for the experience •    Join www.wetcanvas.com and participate in the “scavenger hunt” drawing assignments •    Ask other artists for constructive critiques, not just compliments •   [...]

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  Sitting here looking out the window at the last of the beautiful fall trees, it seems like we have more color this year than we generally do in central Texas.  The yellows and oranges all around the neighborhood have been such a nice change, but now the trees are losing their leaves more rapidly. [...]

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