Ollas, pastel painting

I did this painting a few weeks ago and failed to post about it.  I took a photo of some large ollas (pots) in front of a building in Austin.  I love pottery and the big pots sitting partly in the sun were very interesting.  In preparation for the painting I moved the pots around, did some value sketches, eliminated one of the pots and added another from my imagination.  Then threw them out in a southwest landscape.  It was fun to work with this.  The ellipses on the open pot were the most difficult to get in perspective and look the way I wanted.  I am happy with this painting now and hope you like it, too.

I plan on putting it against museum glass for framing.  It is not framed at this point.

Ollas, Pastel on Pastelbord, $350.00, unframed.

The colors are pretty good in the photograph, at least on my computer.  It is hard to know what it looks like on your screen. 

I entered this in the Austin Pastel Society Annual Juried Exhibit.  It was not selected.  I'm thinking now that it could be lack of category.  Is it a landscape or a still life??  I was happy to get one painting in the show as there are many lovely entries.  I hope you can make it to the show and/or reception and see the wonderful exhibit.  Right now you can see the paintings on the main page of the APS site, link above.  Later it be in "Events, Upcoming and Past".

The painting that was selected was "Summer Aspens".  You can see how I painted this painting here.  And read more about the show and painting here.