Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

My friend Diana Weems is great at painting most things, but especially antique cars, bikes, trucks, motorcycles…. things I have attempted and quickly gave up on. We met many years ago and I bought a wonderful bicycle painting from her. She has such a great attitude and an amazing family, and here [...]

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Pearathon now has 55 diverse and lovely pear paintings!! If you are an artist who loves to draw or paint pears, send a link to anjou@pearathon.com !
Jo Castillo Pears:
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I posted this a while back, and was thinking of it today while I looked at all the green around me right after the wonderful rain we had. Trees give us so much, we can’t help but be grateful.

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Loblolly Pines east of Austin in the rolling hills of Bastrop County

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I wanted to paint last Friday while at a week-long show at 100 Congress set up via Real Gallery, and didn’t want to take messy pastels to an impressive granite lobby… so I took a small container of my pastel pencils. I have Derwent pastel pencils and Bruynzeel pastel pencils, and like them both. [...]

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I started this in the Claudia Seymour workshop, and have added as much of a self-portrait as I ever intend to do…

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I painted this today on some new paper that my sister-in-law gave me. It is print-making paper (4/20/10: Stonehenge paper). I wasn’t sure I would like it because I’m so stuck on sanded paper (Ampersand or Art Spectrum), but it took layering well and blended nicely.
I’m going to put this up on my [...]

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A group of artist friends had a discussion last night about the slow or non-existent art sales in our area. Our general conclusion was that unless you are one of the few artists whose work is considered an “investment”, then a slow economy typically means slow art sales. And an ongoing fight for [...]

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My friend and fellow pastelist, Jo Castillo, will be having the ribbon-cutting for her new studio and gallery in downtown Bastrop, Texas next Friday, April 23, at 1:30, with a celebration from 1 to 3pm at 1009 Main Street.  She is a very generous person, both in her personal life and in sharing her knowledge [...]

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One day I rode around our neighborhood very early and took a lot of photos of the trees in the fog. I loved these trees – not sure if it was one or two, but the slant of them was so nice.
Pastel, image 16″ x 20″

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