Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

Actually a rooster, but he’s kind of funky from some perspectives.
My friend, Jo Castillo, sketches in ink. Only in ink. Way too much pressure. So irrevocable. I will generally draw in pencil until I get it like I want it, then draw it in ink. But I thought, what the heck, and attempted to capture [...]

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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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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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I have a neighbor and lovely friend who started painting again after many years of being busy with other facets of life, and every once in a while we are able to get together and work on our pastel paintings.   She paints portraits, landscapes, still-lifes and even cars, which I avoid at all costs!  Very [...]

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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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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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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, convoluted [...]

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Being a long-time computer user – I did key punch in the 70’s and bought my first computer in 1983  (Yes, a Commodore 64) – I am still a very unsophisticated rube incapable of being blasé about the Internet.
I think it is a fantastic and amazing library where I can instantly – and usually for [...]

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Not having much time right now to put into painting, I can steal a few minutes here and there to check out my favorite blogs…  and those artist’s favorite blogs.
Here is one I found today –
Andrea Joseph’s sketchblog
Wonderful, wonderful sketches.
And I found Andrea through
Rose Welty
who also loves to paint, draw and figured out [...]

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One of my friends from the Austin Pastel Society has a new blog – mikeetieart.blogspot.com – and a very nice art website
www.mikeetie.com
It will be well worth your time to visit and see his great landscapes.

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