I fell in love with Pastels forty years ago when I used them primarily to do outdoor studies for my acrylic paintings. The acrylics were done in my studio and I didn't take them outside to work. But, I loved working in pastel. Since then, I have taken up the pastels for their own sake. My current technique involves water color under paintings which often become part of the finished work and add an often unexpected turn to the work. That makes the resulting image kind of a hybrid, the mixture of the experience of seeing with the experience of painting.
“Barb Wire Survivor”
“Ready for the Plow”
