Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

I think I have re-painted this specific painting (not just the scene) about four times. I kind of like it – the colors jumping around are interesting. This last incarnation is partly the result of painting with my pastelist friend Mike Etie, who paints in a very colorful and ‘painterly’ fashion. (You can see [...]

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Looking at the last post, I really seriously didn’t like the painting. Sometimes I can’t tell that until I see a photo. Weird.
So I re-painted it and cropped it. And what the hell, I blended it too.
And layered more pastel here and there. I like it better. At least for today.
I haven’t had much [...]

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I can’t foresee ever tiring of painting the sky.  The continual changing of colors, shapes, atmosphere is breath-taking, and to try to capture these once in a while is never boring.
On this one, I decided to try to do a pastel painting without any blending.  It’s sooo hard.  I know many pastelists who don’t blend, [...]

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Pastel, 13″ x 13″ — (Click for larger view)
I’ve started a new series. I’ve never really even done a “series”, but decided a while back that I wanted to try something new. So I’ve spent the last few weeks having a lot of fun and working on the first couple of pastel paintings. These are [...]

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This Siamese cat sketch in pencil was done from a main photo of my cat, with her standard superior expression, and collecting the coloring, head and body shape of Siamese cats from other photos. I actually did about six different drawings until I finally liked this one.
Once I had it the way I wanted it, [...]

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It’s been a long dry summer in regard to finding time to draw or paint. Hopefully that situation is coming to a close, but not quite there. I did a quick sketch tonight of my cat sitting on my lap. I generally paint or draw from photos, but the materials and subject presented [...]

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Here is a photo my husband took of a black deer in our back yard.  We’ve seen this guy around the neighborhood since last year, growing up.  Beautiful.

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I think I’ve become addicted to taking photos.  I tell myself it’s because I hope to paint these someday soon, but I think I’m already set for life as far as subject matter goes.  Inks Lake, from what I read, is the second busiest state park in Texas and it’s beautiful.

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I wanted to do a small drawing that looked old, like the subject used to be… this is an anniversary gift, drawn from a photo, of a one room schoolhouse that was on my husband’s family land in Kentucky.  He knew the building growing up – it’s gone now, but has special memories for him [...]

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Sometimes I update my “Colors” page, where I combine two things I love – color from a part of a painting (or a photo) of mine with a poem or just a few lines that seem to be illustrated by that color.
Here is my writing from today, which is a reminder to practice having a [...]

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