Regina Calton Burchett – Pastels & Drawing

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 [...]

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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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Pastel, 10″x9″

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Final Version here: http://www.fallshadows.com/blog/2011/06/12/painting-a-large-pastel-36×24-chaparral-skies/ This is the largest pastel painting I’ve done to date – 36″x24″ – and I am still working on it. I generally work to bring a painting forward all at once, but there are areas of this I really like and hope not to touch again. There are areas that are [...]

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With the theme “Artful of Music”, the Creative Arts Society has a juried exhibition at the Austin Bergstrom International Airport from April 5 through July 6, 2011. “Austin Shine”, an original pastel, 10″x20″ will be part of this show ~

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“Fire and Smoke” was juried into the Austin Pastel Society’s Annual Member Show at Corridor of Art – 700 Lavaca, Austin, March 7 – April 30, 2011

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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 [...]

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

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The last couple of months have been spent enjoying the time I could spare creating art while wondering, yet again, why we do art – especially during slow economic times when not many people seem to be interested in buying what we spend so much time planning, drawing, painting, judging.. And the very complex, intricate, [...]

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Again, I’m having a very difficult time getting a correct color photo of this blue / mauve / grey painting.  This is a little blurry, but I actually think my cell phone took a more accurate picture than our more expensive camera. This was painted from a photo I took while in a boat in [...]

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