Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

One of my many goals for the new year, drawing or painting or doing some type of art every day is at the top of my list. This is a sketch from this evening of a small iron bird that I found in Fredericksburg this weekend.  No. 2 pencil on white paper.
The second item on [...]

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Art Cards
I have several paintings I’m working on, but this week is mainly devoted to getting my art, cards, prints, display and prices together for the Travis Heights Art Trail. The forecast says rain, but I’m setting up my display frame and tent with the sides, so come visit, whatever the weather!! I will be [...]

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On Saturday, November 19, 2011, I’ll will be giving a demonstration on painting skies and clouds at the Texas Pastel Society. The meeting will start at 10-12 noon at the Tobin Library, 4134 Harry Wurzbach, in San Antonio.
My source photo for this demo came from Jo Castillo – a wonderful sky to paint! Thank you, [...]

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It’s always a quandary on whether to show a work in progress, because pastel paintings – mine, anyway – take a while to become what I hope they will be. And sometimes, they never get to that point. But maybe this will show another artist one of the wonderful things about pastels – you can [...]

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26 Artists and 40 works of art at the new Real Gallery location at 11th & Navasota, Austin.

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My good friend Jo Castillo and her husband lost their home this week in the fire that destroyed (as of today) 1,386 homes in Bastrop, Texas and 34,000 acres. Jo and I started out in pastels together many years ago and still paint together as often as we can. Bastrop is a beautiful area [...]

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My friend Sherry Fields and I are having a show entitled “Our Austin” during the month of September at Amplify Credit Union at 6th and Congress, downtown Austin. We chose five images and each created a painting from those photos. This one is from a photo I took during a visit to Sherry’s [...]

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Pastel, 20″x16″
Painted on Ampersand pastelbord.  I start by completing the basic drawing with pastel pencils then block in the large shapes with hard pastels (like Nupastels).  Then I do the underpainting by blending these into the surface of the board with alcohol and an old brush. The underpainting can be complementary colors or the color [...]

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Our show will be up for a month at the Old Bakery and Emporium at 1006 Congress, just south of the Capitol in Austin.
Hope you can come to see the exhibit and all the other great items!

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