Fruit in the Folds Pastel Sketch

It is still cold, so another inside sketch.  I usually sketch inside anyway, right?  The items were "fold" and
"fruit".  Secondary color was also on the list but the purple napkin can only count for one item.

Number 3, fruit - lemon and mandarin oranges
Number 4, fold - purple napkin hanging over a bottle

I used the wiped off blue paper and a variety of pastels.  About 20 minutes.  I thought you might like to see the paper mess.  Another item was secondary color which would be the purple or orange.  Guess I could have numbered the oranges separate from the lemon.  Oh well, I won't get the whole list done anyway.  I will make the list for Hunt 56 starting tomorrow.  I put it up late the night before for our artists on the other side of the world.  Right now we have Ai in Thailand and Brian who is maybe in South Africa.  We sometimes have Vivien in Australia or New Zealand and a couple in Europe.  Some of the artists drift in and out of the Hunts.  They get busy with painting, shows and life.  A few of us are regulars since 2006.  Many years!

We came through the ice storm fairly well.  We didn't get enough ice to break trees or cause power outage.  The power outages were caused by trees falling on the power lines.  We did have a couple of flickers yesterday evening that made the DirecTV reset.  It didn't even stop the clocks on the stove or microwave.    Austin and farther west were not so lucky.  Austin had about 150,000 outages which they hope to repair by tomorrow.  50,000 more with Pedernales and Bluebonnet in the surrounding areas.  We have Bluebonnet Electric and there were some outages west of us.  It was just about 32 since Monday night - Tuesday.  Today is supposed to warm up to 40 degrees F.

Some photos of our ice.

Not too bad although Gene couldn't open the mailbox yesterday without some tools to break the ice.  It opened OK today.

Back to work on the Austin Pastel Society show.  Did you get entered?  I didn't.  I just haven't been painting and no desire to frame and carry to the shows.  I like to use museum glass or acrylic and that has doubled in price this year.  Maybe I'll get something done for the next show at the Lost Pines Art Center.  I could do acrylics or oil on wrapped canvas and not need to frame them.  We shall see.