Regina Calton Burchett – Drawings & Pastels

I missed drawing my bird last night, so am posting a painting I’ve been thinking about. I’ve been visualizing this in my mind – I loved the photo I took back in 1989, and I loved the final piece when I painted it back in 2007 (above). Now I want to try it again, [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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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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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I like working on these 5×7 landscapes, but need to improve on…  so many things.  Not over-working a piece, brush type strokes rather than drawing, maintaining my way of painting without copying the current movement toward complete minimalism, while still studying to be a better artist….  practice, practice.

LittleLandscape2     5×7    Pastel

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This was an experiment for me and a step away from my art comfort zone.  But I like it.

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