36″x24″ Mixed media. I recently got some new toys in my studio: oil paint sticks. They are delightful to work with. If you were ever tempted to draw on the mirror with your mother’s lipstick, you would enjoy these.
Here is the painting before the paint sticks!
I loved making the fat, crayon-like marks, and also found they produced a beautiful warm glow when blended. Delightful!
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Plein air
My sweet husband is a runner, and he spends his runs scouting out fantastic painting spots for me. Today he made coffee in the dark, brought me to a spectacular beach, and even set up my easel.
10″x8″ pastel and wind on sanded paper
Plein air – Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii
Poʻipū literally, “crashing waves” in Hawaiian
10″x8″ pastel, wind, and sea mist on sanded paper. Plein air
The wind was a battle. I used my underpainting to do most of the work, just sculpting out the palms with Sky, then adding a few strokes of green. Usually soft pastels are dusty, today they were sticky.
Color study 3.5″x2.5″
I love these little studies, they are a great way to work out colors and compositions, or just to finish a painting when you are short on time.
Painting with my girls!
8″x10″ pastel on sanded paper
Koke’e State Park
Wailele means leaping water in Hawaiian.
“There’s no better place to find yourself that sitting by a waterfall and listening to it’s music.” -Roland R Keller
8″x10″ pastel on sanded paper
“Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.” -Albert Schweitzer
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
“The focus of ‘Flower’ is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.” -Jenova Chen
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Kauai
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” -Rabindranath Tagore
10″x8″ pastel on sanded paper
Play this sound track: “Look mom, an eel!, a school of so many fish” Now roll the surf in the background. It was a beautiful morning.
Plein air – Kauai
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