Category: New Artwork

Daily Painting in La Manzanilla – eyeglasses continued

Daily Painting   So I’m on my third daily painting of eyeglasses. (You can see the first one here and the second one here.) I guess a book was going to be the obvious accompaniment eventually and so sure enough, that’s what’s here – the book I’m reading at the moment, The Madonnas of Leningrad.

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Daily Painting in La Manzanilla – the second one

Daily Painting   I can hardly believe I’ve been here in La Manzanilla, Mexico just over a week. Time does fly. I’ve been pastelling and have another daily painting to show you.   I do like the eyeglasses as a subject (see my previous blog).  I changed the surface on which they rested as well

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Daily paintings from La Manzanilla, Mexico – numero uno!

  Saludos from La Manzanilla!   As delightful as it is here – sunny and warm, lovely people, beautiful long beach with hardly anyone on it – I have committed to pastel/draw/paint every day. I am determined to continue exploring new directions in my work as well as creating daily paintings. I have a box

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Plein air painting in Grand Cayman…done from inside out :-)

  So in all the family excitement during my 10-day visit to Cayman, it wasn’t until the last day that I found the opportunity to sit and pastel. Of course there was the frantic decision – what to paint? what to paint? – but I had been eyeing the beauty of some seagrape trunks through

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Pastels for Kennedy Gallery, Grand Cayman

  This is going to be a quickie. Truly. I’m with immediate family in Grand Cayman having such fun so squeezing in blog time is tricky. But I have a couple of my pastels to show you.   I brought them down for Kennedy Gallery as they had sold some pieces recently (always great to

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