December Road

Pastel on UArt 21x15

This painting won Honorable Mention at the Spring Show - JCVA (Jacksonville Coalition for the Visual Arts).

December Road

Pastel - 21x15 UArt

I signed the work and took another picture in the daylight - outdoors in shadow.

I will leave my previous posts as history of the progress and concept in this painting.

December Road - færdig

Pastel on UArt - 21x15 - mostly Rembrandt Pastels

9:45 pm - put some "final" corrections in and calling this piece finished. I haven't signed it and am holding back on that till I see it in daylight tomorrow. I need to let the work rest for a while, and then I'll make the final determination. If I sign off, I'll take another picture and replace this one with a note of what I've done.

Overall, I do like this very much. I plan to keep this painting for myself.

Dec. Road WIP 12-23

Things I learned today, or of which I was reminded:

1. Add color not detail.
2. Move from passage to passage, don't get bogged down.
   When I stay too long in one area, I tend to overwork the painting, and the result is mud!
3. I need to put the piece of chalk down as soon as I finish the ONE thing I picked it up for.
   If I don't, that color works its way into too many places.

December Road WIP

This is my "end of the day" post of work accomplished today. Distractions abound, and I am too easily distracted.

Made corrections to the sky - added more blue, intensified the color, deepened the value. I don't know if it's a more believable December sky, but I think it's definitely more interesting.