Painting Pastels and Sketching.

I painted on Thursday before Gene's ride, but didn't get any post done.  I was trying to get a couple more little paintings done for the Arts About Town on Saturday, September 3, here in Angel Fire.  You can see about it on the sidebar under Exhibits.

I put two 5 x 7 Pastelbords on my drawing board and went upstairs and painted.  I had aspens and the mountains in mind.  I decided on aspens in the fall and a cabin in the woods.  I worked on them both for most of the afternoon and finished up the aspens yesterday.  The aspens were on a white Pastelbord so I did a watercolor underpainting in basically the same tones before starting in pastel.  The cabin is on a board I had painted on before and wiped and washed off, so needed no underpainting.  I used various brands of pastels and a different palette for each.

Seldom Used - Pastel on Pastelbord, 5 x 7 inches, $50.00

Aspen Gold, Pastel on Pastelbord, 7 x 5 inches, $90.00

Both paintings are against the glass and taped.  Seldom used is unframed, but ready to pop in a frame or sit on an easel.  I had sketched the cabin up in Red River on the day I sketched with Lou Baggett.  I really like the shape of the tree against the cabin.  You can see it almost looks the same in both the sketch and the painting.  Wow!

The Aspen Gold will be in a frame to match Summer Aspens.  They have a 3 inch mahogany colored frames, just flat frames.  They look neat.  I will try to get a photo.  You can see them together on the post on Jo's Notions and More Paintings here.  A little break in price if you buy the set.

I sketched yesterday morning for Scavenger Hunt 235.  It was nice out on the deck again.  Last year we had a deck I could paint on, but not this year.  I could paint on the deck downstairs here but it is small and I would have to carry everything in and out and up and down.  I'm just not into that.  Anyway, sketches are in the same sketchbook with the same pen.

Number 9, from the table - a clear plastic napkin holder and the paper napkins with blue flowers.  Number 10, souvenir - a little copper church that we gave Gene's mom from Chile.  We just got it back last time we were in Albuquerque.  I drew it without my hand that was holding it, giving it such a strange angle that I decided to add my hand.  I don't really have a see through thumb.

We will be on the road to the dentist so will be sketching and not painting.  I will try to post from the hotel.