Country Scene

I give up. I tried 4 times to get this picture on here the right way. I don't even like the picture. When, I'm on my own, I'm totally lost with pastel. I thought I would do a landscape like the one on orange paper with only black and white. It's spring, and everything is coming up green. This picture doesn't show progress or skill. Something that is postive? I like the white barn and red stop sign. Green is calming and soothing.

Still Life with Fruit

I wish I would have taken this photo a little better, now the batteries on my camera are dead. But, wow, light and dark, shading, shadows, are much more dramatic on this one then the one I did on my own. If I don't follow instructions, I'm kind of lost, but I'll keep experimenting.

Still Life with Apple and Vinegar

Here is a still life I tried to do by myself, and not copy what was in my work book. I tried to work on shading and shadows and light and dark, but I think the fruit that I did from the work book is a lot more dramatic

Blue Petunias

No time this weekend to really practice and crank out drawings. I had my mom over for Mother's Day yesterday, and she gave rave reviews over my previous still life. Who would have thought. I want to get more charcoal like, chalk like pastels. This I don't feel is anything that special. Still fun to kill time while doing a load of laundry.

Still Life with Mushrooms

Here's an exercise practice from my pastel workbook. I'm still not working with the type of paper and utensils that the book talks about, but I'm improvising. For pastel paper, I'm using colored construction paper, and I have some charcoal pastels and some oils, not quite in the colors suggested. Not sure I understand light and dark yet, but I get the idea, you should shade in your darker areas first, then layer in the lighter areas. Still needs work.

Charlie

Rode a new horse in my lesson today. His name is Charlie. He is very cute, and was very forgiving of all my mistakes. He's calm and a slow poke. Chestnut, cute blaze on his face, white socks. This might not be the best drawing in the world, but I think he actually looks like this pretty much. :)

Goofy Landscape in Orange

Voila, goofy landscape in orange. I think I like the other one better