Columbia Art Guild St Helens Or. sketch at Yankton Restaurant and Store in Yankton Or.

This was a fun morning sketching my potato soup with the gals from Columbia Art Guild in St Helens. And closer to home.  We are thinking trying out places to eat and sketching them. 

Experimenting with oils compared to pastels .

I've been looking at objects and experimenting with oils and pastels. 

Oregon society of Artist today our model was Jennifer -- pastels.

Our model today was Jennifer a great red headed model. i worked in pastel pencil on canson and then came home and worked with some softer pastels. I think we are going to have her next week as well. with Joanne Hollman from Troy Studio 111. 

A Geri Graley drawing of me at Medley in Portland or

Columbia Art Center - Hood River Oregon . Show- "Art Of the Feast"

Art of the FEast show. My picture sold. But I also went and saw the Columbia center for the Arts theatre actors in Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. I love plays.

As I love walks among the moist fall trees and fresh air I work in pastels to try and recreate the atmosphere. 

show I'm going to participate in Hood River Oregon 

October 5th to October 31st I will be in "The Art of the Feast" at Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River. 

Habitat for Humanity volunteering . ( photo by Debbie Ritthaler)

sketching at Trojan Park near Rainier Oregon today

It was a warm afternoon and so I took some sketching material and sketched. 

Tony at the Troy Studio 111

Well . I went to the Troy studio 111 in SE Portland Oregon today to draw ( or scribble) our model Tony. Pastels. 

Lizz -pastel on canson from the Troy studio 111 Portland Oregon

Was working on a model from the Troy studio 111 in Portland Oregon . I don't know if we will have her for a model again. It's up to Joanne Hollman. Learning more about the head with each one.

LilliAN from Troy Studio 111

Lillian a model from Troy Studio 111 in pastels . I thought she was a good model . It was a study but I can see going further with this model. Maybe another study. 

Working on Corrine at Troy 111 Studio with Jody Burton,Joanne Radmilovich Kollman and Harriett

I continued to work on my pastel on Corrine even tho everyone else does oils.  But it was great to see them work and how good they came out or in the process.

Corrine pastel study from Troy studio 11

Well I started this at the Troy Studio 11 with Joanne Radmilovich Kollman and then didn't have time to finish because I'm a slow poke . I took it home and worked on it some more. I think it could be more extreme and that might be fun to explore.

Hipbone studio in Portland - My pastel drawing of Siling.

pastels at the Troy laundry building where they art studios. Siobhan model

ttps://en.wikipedia.org/.../Troy_Laundry_Building_(Portland,   Sketching/ drawing at the Troy laundry building where they have art studios.
Most of the people there were painting but I like to use pastels. 

Well today I worked a bit on a life drawing. Didn't get to finish but maybe more time. 

Still life- pastels.

Samuel- pastels

My model today is my son Samuel. I figure if you miss the model session go out and grab yourself and model and go for it. pastel

Brush and Palette day sketching with Joanne Mehl

Sketching today at Brush and Palette in Gladstone today. Think I'm going to go back and do it over again on the right side of the paper. W/ Joanne Mehl.

Sean in his Hamberg hat. Troy art Studios. JoAnne Radmilovich Kollman,

This is on some heavy pastel paper. I'm having some problems with it . I'm hoping I'll solve it. maybe I'm in between two ideas or something. glad I'm going drawing Saturday to relax. 

brush and pallette today

https://brushandpallette.wordpress.com/  At brush and Pallette today. I did pastel of course and everyone else did oils. I think.

On my easel today is a road in Scappoose Oregon. Or near there. Found some paper at the art store that I thought was pretty cool. Takes the pastels well.This is not a great photo but I am happy with the trees. I should go back into it and work a little bit more. I'm liking the Great American Art Works pastels. www.greatpastels.com/

Brush and Pallette life drawing session https://brushandpallette.

Went to Brush and Pallette the Creative Arts building to day in Gladstone and we worked on our model. This is the first pass for me and next week I'll work on it some more. It was good to see Diane back and Za Vue with her water based oil paints. I need to put the flower in her hair next week. The piece I'm working on is kind of big so it's loose. Za Was very supportive. https://brushandpallette.

Been having some fun with still life objects. There's still much to learn. This is on Canson Mi- Teintes paper but am thinking about experimenting on other paper.

Canson Mi-Teintes paper.great+american+pastels along with pencil pastels like Stabilo, Faber-Castell,Gioconda. and NuPastels .

I was asked if I worked these still lives from photographs. Here is what i do. I set up objects on a table and light them and then set the easel in front and draw away. That's how I work.

fun to do these little studies. Flooded trees in Oregon.http://30paintingsin30days.weebly.com/blog

A quick study of pastels with flowers. 

Went to Camas WA to see Brenda Boylan's show in the new Attic Gallery there. Nice little town Camas. Also they have the Camas Gallery .  www.atticgallery.com

A quick pastel . 9 by 12. 

small oil study for 30 paintings in thirty days   I was interested in working objects in oils This is not quit done but interesting to continue with.   30paintingsin30days.weebly.com

I don't know if this is complete or if I will go back to it. sometimes I think it's good to put stuff away and look at it with new eyes later.I added this piece to the 30 paintings in Thirty day challenge . Just for fun to see what I come up with every day and maybe artists should be working everyday.  http://30paintingsin30days.weebly.com/blog .    

juice it.

pastel on Canson paper. 18 by 24.

On a fall rOad in Columbia County. 18 by 24. Pastel dding link to http://30paintingsin30days.weebly.com/blog

pear on a pitcher. pastels.

Well I don't think it's going to take me 30 days to figure out that doing quick one day paintings is a good thing. Kind of like fast food or drive by stuff. Although I do think it's good for doing a study of what you are thinking about painting to a larger extent. Why not take a piece of paper or board and some colors and take it to the spot you are thinking about painting and spend a hour or two looking at the colors and composition of what you want to paint and do a small study which is what these pieces ended up being.

this is day #12 of the 30 paintings in thirty day challenge. Since I was thinking about doing this composition on a bigger scale I decided to do a study on a smaller scale. I might revisit this composition on a heavier paper and make it bigger but it was good to do a study before I actually committed to a bigger piece. All in all this challenge has been a good discipline for me. 

Still working on some still life things . Pastel. Approx. 21 by 13.