I love the color of the limes against this blue saucer. Framed size (with light mat and narrow black frame) is about 14 × 16.5.
You’ll see two very similar paintings here, at the 2022 painting retreat with Shahar I painted the same subject on four 6x8 pastel paper samples. These two are my favorites.
I began the underpainting on this in May 2021 and finished it a few months later. This is one of my favorites, and it got into Pastels USA/99 Voices in Pastel, an international show put on by the Pastel Society of the West Coast.
Soft pastels on Canson textured paper.
Soft pastel on Pastelmat.
5x7, Pastel on pastelmat.
5.25 x 8.5. Pastel on toned UART. I use this as the home screen on my phone.
Painted outdoors in our back yard. I find painting on location challenging and this spring and summer I’ve made a point of getting out for plein air classes, competitions and practice. This one was practice (and fun).
5x7. Pastel on Pastelmat.
9 x 7. Pastel on Pastelmat.
Painted during a Claudia Rilling workshop — Florals: Simplifying and Observing — taken in January and February 2021. I don’t paint many flowers, but I did enjoy both the process and the result. This was more busy than intended, but I still like it, and because of the class it’s a lot more simplified than it would have been. I learned a lot.