"ACROSS THE MARSH" 9X12 Pastel

Here's another 9x12 pastel I just completed. This was from a beautiful location during Robin's plein air trip last fall. This morning was my favorite time of the trip. The glow was amazing. This was the same time in the morning that my painting "7AM Bridge Street-Chatham" was painted. I think the whole Cape was lit up with that amazing orange glow. I'm not sure I captured the glow as I did in "7AM" but this painting makes me happy.... I love the colors...the bold reds and greens. A beautiful reminder of an amazing weekend.

I started with a very bright red underpainting. It's hard to tell from the image of the painting, but I focused on leaving some of the underpainting showing through. Sadly, I ended up covering 90% of it. I left a little in the sky and didn't fill all the tooth of the pastel paper which is another effect I was going for. I wanted to put a stroke and leave it with minimal blending with my pastels. I was technically trying a different approach on this painting and for that I feel I accomplished what I set out to do. 

Hope you enjoy it!

"Daytime Drift" 8x10 Pastel

Wow, it's been a while! I've been working on quite a few paintings in pastel and oil. This is the first of the bunch I've completed recently. 

I'm very happy with the clouds. When I first completed them, they looked awful. I literally spent three hours trying to get the clouds correct. I finally wiped the whole top half of the painting out and spent about an eighth of the time correcting them and this is the final result. I love them!

I love the perspective of the land mass and the contrast of the boat on the water. 

This was a fun subject to paint. 

This is going to be a busy month. I have a few more paintings to post and a couple of shows coming up. I'll be back soon, I hope you will too! Thanks for looking!