Eggs on Red,

It's been awhile since my last post. I did a show last weekend in West Linn Oregon and was lucky and sold two paintings. That's always exciting to have someone liked your work enough to spend money on it.

Now, about this latest pastel, I seem to have difficulty photographing any of my art that has a lot of reds in it. The red parts in shadow always look too dark. I did a pastel of a bowl of cherries that I haven't posted because of the same problem. But I thought what the heck, post the eggs and see how they appear on my blog.

Distant Farm, (SOLD)

This pastel was done in a pastel class given by Gary Michael. garylmichaelart.com.
The painting was done on Wallis Paper, which is such a wonderful surface to work on.

Orange Sections ( SOLD )

I have recently been working in Pastels and preparing my own surface to work on. I use Gator Board that I coat with a combination of Gesso, acrylic medium or white glue and Pumice. It makes a great surface to work on because I can put down many layers of pastel without using any fixative.