Work In Progress: Suwanee River, Update 7   The painting is complete!   The important concept to remember with this painting is that I want to represent the scene in its basic, unembellished form – to represent the essence of the scene without detail. The less detail in the painting, the more the viewer is […]

Work In Progress: Suwanee River, Update 6 Working through this pastel painting has been a great learning experience for me. My thoughts will most certainly evolve further as I gain more experience in this wonderful medium. When I first started this painting I was not convinced, but I was strongly in favor of the premise […]

Work In Progress: Suwanee River, Update 5             As with most pastel landscape paintings I decided to do an underpainting. But, just what is underpainting and why do we do it? This is a question I kept asking myself as I watched many fine pastel artists demonstrate. They all pretty much used the technique of […]

Work In Progress: Suwanee River, Update 4   The Color Sketch Pastels are very liberating! I did a color sketch for the painting and, because I had a pretty good idea of what colors I wanted to use, (and I know that I can easily add to them and perhaps replace some with others as […]

Work In Progress: Suwanee River, Update 3   Last time I posed a number of questions to myself concerning this painting that I felt were important for me to answer. I’m hoping that, by answering them I can produce a better and more meaningful painting. So, here goes…     What does this scene mean […]