Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

Growing older seems to bring along with it many more hit-you-in-the-face life lessons than most other age brackets.  Yes, it is much more difficult to get up off the floor after you toppled over trying to pick up a piece of paper.  No, you can’t lose weight as easily as you did when you [...]

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eBay Listing for Egret at Lake Bastrop
Ending my year by trying something new – selling an original pastel painting on eBay!

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Winter Cardinal
Pastel, 11×14
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

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I’ve had this 90% done for a long time, and a suggestion from my friend Ruth Meaders helped me finish it.

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I finished this several months back, finally framed it and decided I like it after all.  I’ve always thought ball moss was so pretty, even though it doesn’t do any good to the trees.  And I love these colors.

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I’m always grateful for honest advice from artist friends, as they can often see things I can’t about a work in progress, and it also helps me learn new things to apply to future work.
Jo Castillo and Ruth Meaders – both gave me some good advice on helping to make this a better painting [...]

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Practice, practice.  Learn to see — attempt to get the shapes down correctly, note to try more straight lines than curves sometimes— study the light – the source, the reflections, the shadows, and the shapes of the shadows—work on annoying ellipses and view upside down to see anew

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A really nice reception today with the Austin Pastel Society at the Northwest Hills Gallery! Exceptionally nice people with a lovely gallery, and great to see so many APS members there.
And so many wonderful paintings!  This is one of my favorites – a Grey Fox by Jan Weaver that was in the show – it’s [...]

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Not completely happy with this one yet – I think I’ll work on the reeds and the egret some more. This excellent model lives at Lake Bastrop and definitely has his territory staked out, along with a great blue heron.

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A little more fine tuning to be done, but close to finished.

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