Autumn

Pastel Painting: Up North on Long Lake

My family's Thanksgiving holiday was (once again) spent "way up north, " traversing the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Northern...

Pastel Painting: Early Sun

This is the final version of Early Sun, a 12x12 pastel painting done on an acrylic underpainting. You can read the blog about the...

StudioSense: Bold Acrylic Underpainting

I will often start a pastel painting with an underpainting of either watercolor, acrylic, or a wash of pastel diluted with isopropyl...

Pastel Painting - Huron River at Gallup Park

Continuing with my Gallup Park series, below is a view of the Huron River at Gallup Park in Ann Arbor, MI. The reference photo was taken...

Pastel Painting: Fall Color Hike

When my son Matthew was in Cub Scouts in Saline, Michigan (early on his journey to achieve Eagle Scout), an annual ritual for the troop...

Pastel Technique: Seeing Spots

One of the joys of painting landscapes in pastels is the ability to quickly add dashes and spots of different color to express density...

Pastel Painting: Lillie Park Vista

Here's the completed version of "Lillie Park Vista,' started in the "Landscape in Pastels" class this January at the Michigan Art Center.

Pastel Painting: A dollop of effect

Working more blocks of value and color in the autumn tree painting, which i started at the Michigan Art Center landscape painting class....

Picked Over

I could not resist painting this picked-over corn field in late September. The field is at the corner of Marton and Textile Roads, in...